Saturday, March 15, 2008

William Wordsworth‚s Tintern Abbey

Wordsworth emphasizes on the atrocity of being locked up. He uses time to stress this in such lines as „Five years have past; five summers, with the length‰ and „Which at this season, with their unripe fruits‰. With diction of words like Œseason‚ and Œunripe fruits‚, Wordsworth provides a descriptive image of time and nature to highlight the message of the Self being locked up inside ˆ similar to the asylum in the poem. As Professor Makdiski said in his lecture, this marks as the new Wordsworth.

- Donald Ung

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