Topic > Messages from Tintern Abbey - 596

In my life I try not to look at someone's past, but being a human being that's what we do and we judge them based on their past and it's just stupid. Everyone should live looking at the present and this is the thing that seems to be the most difficult in everyday life. In most relationships between a boy and a girl, they always look towards the future and that's when their relationship goes south. What William Wordsworth did in his poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, looks to the past, the present and finally the future. He talks about it all in the most positive way imaginable, first reflecting on the past when he last went to see the cathedral, Tintern Abbey. Then he moves on to what he sees in the current moment and finally he moves on to look into the future of what he hopes will happen. What he remembers from the past, what he sees in the present, what he hopes to see in the future when he watches Tintern Abbey. To begin, Wordsworth reflects on the past and what he saw on his first journey to Tintern. In the first lines of Tintern Wordsworth begins ...