"Tintern Abbey"

Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” begins with the common poetical convention of vivid imagery. Noticeably, the poem is written in unrhymed verse. The words, although unrhymed, create their own beauty, in that they paint magical and mystical landscapes in the reader’s consciousness. The poem then goes on to detail the fact that the scene has remained unchanged for the past five years, describing the landscape as rich and serene. There is a comfort, not only to the speaker, but also to the reader, in the landscape, and early on in the poem, a theme of solitude and hermitage is established.
Later, in the second stanza, the speaker goes on to describe some of his vivid memories, transferring their image to the reader. Through the progression of memory the speaker is able to leap beyond the constraints of reality and begins to see things in a new sense, he reaches a "purer mind." The narrator begins the second stanza by sharing his memories of nature. The "beauteous forms" o...