He compares the sort of man he was on both occasions. It is a double revelation that which he experienced five years previously, and that which he experiences in the present. As I have said already it is concerned with the revelations of the Divine in Nature (or perhaps the Divinity in Nature). It is set in Tintern Abbey on the banks of the Wye, which Wordsworth had revisited with his sister, Dorothy, after an interval of five years. Tintern Abbey is a reflective ode written in blank verse. The poem, therefore, illustrates better than any other his rather strange relationship with Nature, which was more personal and intense than his relationship with any person. The poem consists of five sections and these represent his developing relationship with Nature. It is, in a way, the Gospel, according to Wordsworth and he is an evangelist for Pantheism – seeing the Divine in Nature. The importance of this poem cannot be overstated.
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