Wordsworth Vs. Coleridge

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the importance of memory, and the loss of innocence that occurrs with age. In “Tintern Abbey,” along with his other poetry, Wordsworth’s images and metaphors mix natural scenery and the relics of his rustic childhood --cottages, hedgerows, orchards, and other places where humanity intersects gently and easily with nature such as in. In “Tintern Abbey” Wordsworth deals with the subjects of childhood and the memory of childhood in the mind of the adult in particular, and childhood’s lost connection with nature, which can be preserved only in memory.
The poem begins with Wordsworth providing the reader with a sense of place, using conversation elements, recounting objects that he sees for the first time in five years. This place moves to the background for the rest of the poem (after the first stanza) and stays there, as Wordsworth concentrates on how the scene affects him. He recalls how the memory of the abbey has lightened “the heavy and the weary weight of…this unintelligible world” (lines 40-41). Even in the present moment, the memory of his past experiences in these surroundings floats over his present view of them, and he feels bittersweet joy in reviving them, f...