Topic > A Treatment of Messages from Tintern Abbey - 724

Moving from the Age of Reason to the Romantic Period, much has changed regarding the authors of literary works. Those poets who belong to the Age of Reason around 1700 and those many famous poets before them all wrote different types of poetry. Over the decades in this country there have been many different changes in poetry which has evolved in each country also evolving around the world. Poets like Williamworth, William Blake, and Robert Burns belong to the Romantic period where poets of this time wanted to make poetry easier to read and understand, but with a deeper meaning beyond the obvious one. One poet mentioned in this period, Williamworth, was very focused on this type of poetry becoming one of the most famous and important poets in our history. One poem that put him on the highest stage with the rest of those more famous poets is Tintern Abbey. This poem goes from simple to complex providing many messages within the poem at different stages of Wordworth's life. However, in Williamworth's poem Tintern Abbey, Worth conveys three important messages; referring to the past, explaining the present and discussing the future. To illustrate his past, Williamworth uses the famous cathedral of Tintern Abbey to restore his memory. In this poemworth is revisiting a place that is very close to his heart called Tintern Abbey, which is a cathedral. In the second part of the poem he begins to think of himself when he was younger. On page 783 lines 80-91, “An appetite; a feeling and a love, which needed no more remote charm, they furnished me with thought, nor of any interest not borrowed from the eye. That time is gone, and all its dizzying ecstasies. I do not for this reason fail, nor do I murmur mourning; other gifts Have f...... half of the card ......orothy. At the end of the poem she wishes her sister would become a lover of nature because she knows that if she does that nature will, in turn, be kind to her and give her peace as she has given him. Knowing that her younger years are over, she wishes her sister the best, essentially predicting what will happen to her in the future and how to get through it all. To conclude, Williamworth had many important messages hidden in Tintern Abbey. The first is that of the past in which he remembers himself. Another is the future in which he is grateful to nature. Then finally, at the end, when he wishes his sister the best. All these are important things to remember in our lives. To not give up and always have life and hope in our daily journey. Instead of just getting up to be grumpy, angry people. Works Cited Tintern Abbey by Williamworth