Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey | Close Reading and Analysis | Greater Romantic Lyrics

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  • @kon7533
    @kon7533 10 місяців тому +6

    You are so kind to share this analysis on youtube☺️ Thanks a million👍

  • @qamarqammar7629
    @qamarqammar7629 Рік тому +7

    Thank you for this beautiful reading. My father recited Wordsworth for us on our walks together throughout his life. These places did become more dear to him as he aged and I cannot read Wordsworth without recalling it to my mind. This was the one morality or religion he could truly feel in his own life and that he wanted us to remember.

  • @lisagee9345
    @lisagee9345 Рік тому +8

    I am studying this at uni and that was a beautifully heartfelt and soul-nourishing reading. Thank you.

  • @robertgainer2783
    @robertgainer2783 Рік тому +13

    Among the many stirring emotions this poem evokes is empathy for a man who has lost his youthful ideals, but not his faith in them. There is good reason to believe that this poem had tremendous value for Wordsworth. Although he did revise many of his other poems, he never made a single revision of Lines above Tintern Abbey. Not a word. Unlike Coleridge, who made several revisions of Frost at Midnight. I think he knew just how good a poem it is, a rare thing for a poet as self-doubt is often a characteristic of the creative mind.

  • @simoncox4390
    @simoncox4390 9 місяців тому +2

    Thank you Adam for these deep dives! As a former English student it is comforting to return to analysing poetry for the sake of it. The reverence you have is infectious and your insights really add to experience. I’ve visited tintern abbey so many times but failed to appreciate the Wordsworth link! cheers

  • @markhammond650
    @markhammond650 3 місяці тому +1

    Extremely good explanation and breakdown of this beautiful poem...in January I climbed up to the view point where Wordsworth came up with the poem - its a stunning view and understandable why he was moved to write.

  • @sleeba1
    @sleeba1 6 місяців тому +1

    I love your nuanced reading; the attention to detail.

  • @dorotheafinan2419
    @dorotheafinan2419 9 місяців тому +2

    Thank you for that wonderful analysis of that wonderful poem.

  • @abooswalehmosafeer173
    @abooswalehmosafeer173 7 днів тому

    Thank you so much.I choked too at the end as I thought you did which choked me doubly.

  • @sukhjitsandhu82
    @sukhjitsandhu82 Рік тому +2

    Wonderful exposure of another layer of signification.

  • @andrewquintanawrites
    @andrewquintanawrites Рік тому

    My fave of all time. Loved this!

  • @jonathandeleyser1782
    @jonathandeleyser1782 5 місяців тому

    Thanks so much for this... just exceptional...

  • @akramobada
    @akramobada Рік тому +3

    You're the best Adam , hope I can reach you ,
    Could you please explain the mysticism and pantheistic in this poem

    • @closereadingpoetry
      @closereadingpoetry  Рік тому +6

      The most pantheistic lines are probably the zenith of the spiritual vision here in these lines:
      "And I have felt
      A presence that disturbs me with the joy
      Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
      Of something far more deeply interfused,
      Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
      And the round ocean and the living air,
      And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
      A motion and a spirit, that impels
      All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
      And rolls through all things."
      The key word is "interfused," the idea that a sublime and creative power exists within the material world as an interfused spirit. It's hard to call this strictly pantheism, or at least strictly /materialist/ pantheism, since there is also the sense of not only a materially present divinity, but also a spiritually transcendent and interfused divinity to nature. Coleridge likely introduced Wordsworth to the pantheism of Spinoza during this period, so there is a possible direct connection.
      If we define mysticism as a spiritual insight and practice that operates apart from institutional and confessional religion, it's definitely there in Wordsworth's idea of "natural piety"! Thanks for the question and the kind comment.

    • @akramobada
      @akramobada Рік тому +2

      thanks a lot for replying ,it is so nice of you sir @@closereadingpoetry

  • @tusharkantiroy5568
    @tusharkantiroy5568 Рік тому

    The only poem to me which touches and do feel the heart with very nature of Wordsworth's english

  • @SK_HIYA500
    @SK_HIYA500 5 місяців тому

    Thank you so much for this

  • @sauraveazaad5999
    @sauraveazaad5999 Місяць тому

    you are amazing...

  • @mymusings.7
    @mymusings.7 11 місяців тому

    thankyou adam love from india ❤

  • @maryschroder2938
    @maryschroder2938 2 місяці тому

    i'm a 50 yr old who fell down this rabbit hole, i LOVE this, i used to read poetry in high school, i wasn't cool
    this was my favorit poem, i would read this outloud to myself and it felt like i hyponotized myself, i dont know about the techical stuff but i remember how i felt when i read this poem outlout, i was awsome

    • @maryschroder2938
      @maryschroder2938 2 місяці тому +1

      now im watching this cuz im curious about the poem
      wordsworth is going to have to be back on the reading list

  • @sandrocamposmatos9278
    @sandrocamposmatos9278 11 місяців тому

    Bravo ❤

  • @Liliquan
    @Liliquan Рік тому

    Ahhh the days when republicanism was its current opposite.