Tintern Abbey

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and contrast two worlds, Brian Barbour states “Wordsworth’s basic strategy is to appeal to the spiritual while remaining entirely within the natural order”(Barbour p.154). When he was a young child he came to this valley using it as his own personal playground. He never gave nature the respect and praise that it so deserved. He just saw nature through a young child’s eyes; he saw a tree in which to climb, grass in which was simply to frolic in. The cliffs, springs, and the sky were merely there for his pleasure; never did Wordsworth begin to see nature for what it really was. Wordsworth grew and changed dramatically maturing spiritually, mentally and physically. In his maturing he began to see more of what nature really had to offer him. During his last visit before he would leave for five long years, Wordsworth realized nature’s true beauty and respected and praised it. He had finally realized that one could only find God in his purest form in his own most perfect creation “Nature”. Harold Bloom states “The visible body of Nature is more then a outer testimony of the Spirit of God to him; it is our only way to God” (Modern p.4). He had learned that nature was the true sanctuary for God, not some man made church, the lord didn’t intend us to worship him in a man made structure, which defaced his creations where he dwelled. Wordsworth realized that his fellow man has strayed from God by getting caught up in all the material things in which our society provides us and this deeply saddened him. Brian Barbour informs us that “ the human mind was building a world in which the human spirit could not live” (Brian Barbour p.154). Wordsworth now realized that this place has in so many ways kept him in touch with his creator and with his inner self. Once that Wordsworth returns from this journey he comes to his place of sanctuary to find that he once again sees it in a whole different perspective. When he is upon hi...