Emily Neeleman
September 22, 2013
Blog #6
William Woodsworth and Samuel
Coleridge examine nature as it affects man in both their esteemed poems,
“Lines, Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and “This Line-tree Bower my
Prison.” The two poets’
speakers have a similar view on nature, but express their views in different
fashions. While “Tintern Abbey” and “Lime-tree Bower” both share a deep
appreciation and reverence for nature, “Tintern Abbey” focuses more on the abstract
concept of nature as a whole, while “Lime-tree Bower” is more concerned with
the aesthetic side of nature.
The speakers in both “Tintern Abbey”
and “Lime-tree Bower” are deeply moved by nature, to the point where it touches
each of their lives in a different way. The speaker in “Lime-tree Bower” goes
through a transformation throughout the poem. In the beginning, he describes
himself as trapped in a lime-tree bower and therefore unable to see the parts
of nature with more grandeur (Coleridge 16). After the sun begins to set,
however, and the surrounding area is bathed in golden sunlight, he begins to
see how each part of nature is beautiful, not just the parts with obvious
beauty (16). He before describes meadows, thick forests, and the ocean as the
splendid aspects of nature (16). However, after spending time sitting trapped
in his lime-tree bower, the speaker realizes that the little aspects of nature
are beautiful too, such as the grass and the bark of the trees.
In contrast to the speaker in
“Lime-tree Bower”, the speaker in “Tintern Abbey” always knew nature was
beautiful. He came back to the outskirts of Tintern Abbey and was profoundly moved
by them once again (Woodsworth 4). When he was a boy he would come to Tintern
Abbey and build memories with the nature surrounding it (4). As an older man,
he still appreciates the same serenity and memories he made there even after he
had seen it many times. While
the speaker in “Tintern Abbey” holds great stalk in existing in nature, he also
believes his memories of the nature around Tintern Abbey are important; he says
“Thy memory be as a dwelling-place / For all sweet sounds and harmonies” (5).
Nature had a great impact on both the poems’ speakers’ lives. For the speaker
in “Lime-tree Bower”, the impact was a transformation; the speaker in “Tintern
Abbey” gathered memories from exploring the grounds around Tintern Abbey that
made an impact on his life and his view of nature.
Sentence(s) starting with a FANBOY: The cat chased the mouse down the hall. But, because of the mouse's small nature, it scurried out of reach of the cat.
After reading everything I couldn't find any missed compound sentences, comma splices, sentence fragments or anything else that we weren't supposed to have. I think that this is a very well written piece with no grammatical mistakes in terms of compound sentences and sentence structure.
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