Analyse the different phases of Wordsworth’s relationship with nature as found in ‘Tintern Abbey’.

Analyse the different phases of Wordsworth’s relationship with nature as found in ‘Tintern Abbey’.

Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ is a personal, autobiographical poem. Contemplating the landscape of the Wye, Wordsworth compares his more sensual perceptions when he was younger with his more thoughtful perceptions as an older man.  The poem helps us get an analysis of the three different stages in the gradual development of the poet’s altitude to Nature (a) The period of the blood- the animal pleasures of his boyhood (b) The period of the senses— the enjoyment and apprehension of the sensuous of the sensuous beauty of Nature in his youth and (c) the period of the imagination and the soul- his capacity to look on Nature with a philosophical eye in his maturity.

The first stage in the development of Wordsworth’s attitude to-Nature was marked by a simple delight, in freedom and the open air, at the first stage, Wordsworth found pleasure in roaming about in the midst of Nature. Like a deer, he leaped about over the mountains, by the side of the deep rivers, and along the lonely streams. He wandered about wherever Nature led him. He felt more like one who flees from something that he dreads than like one who seeks the thing he loves. His wanderings in the midst of Nature are described by him as “glad animal movements1’ and the pleasure he enjoyed in the midst of Nature is called a coarse pleasure.

At the second stage, Wordsworth’s love for Nature was purely physical. Nature now appealed chiefly to his senses. He felt pleasure in seeing the colours of Nature in smelling the fragrance of Nature, in touching the objects of Nature and in hearing the sweet sounds of Nature. The colours and shapes of mountains and wood to him were an appetite. The noisy waterfall haunted him like a passion. Thus he loved Nature with an unreflecting, or thoughtless passion. He experienced aching joys and dizzy raptures in his contact with Nature.’ It was the external, outward sensuous beauty of Nature that delighted and gladdened him............................

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