Tenacious Tintern Abbey (An Analysis of Tintern Abbey) One of the greatest poems in the English language has to be, "Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth. This passage takes us through a whirlwind of emotions, of a writer returning to one of his favorite places in nature, with his sister, and a roar of memories flooding his body. He claims that it has been five years since he last visited this place, sitting and listening to the nearby river, he writes. Wordsworth continues to describe this beautiful place, ranging from the trees around him to the curls of smoke coming from a nearby cottage down the hill, he imagines this smoke as a hermit deep in the forest, waking up in the morning. He then goes on to write about the memory of the place from his past. Talking about the beautiful ways he would think of to bring him back to this place when he was far away in the noisy city, how this escape had brought peaceful refreshment to his soul. There are instrumental things included in the poem, which can be attributed to the sheer glory of nature and the way we humans treat this silent beast. He looks to the future and tells his younger sister that he has brought with him. Wordsworth knows that this place, this sanctuary, will always be an escape for him, and now for his little sister. He finds joy in realizing that what he has found will go a long way in his sister's life. He hopes to remember this place for the rest of time, and if he stopped, he would die and his sister would take his place. The entire passage is about messages that are expressed everywhere, in the form of Past, Present and Future. William Wordsworth in his famous passage, expressed a fantastic realization of his past,...... middle of paper... ...of everyday life that he will die, and the memories will live on in his younger sister. Wordsworth tells of an unknown future with life and the passage of this life cannot exist without the past, it is being instrumental in how we live our lives. Our future depends on the decisions we make in the past, it's a circle. Wordsworth's “Tintern Abbey” is a marvel, an expression of what our lives participate in and how the three representations of our lives are; Past, Present and Future all combine into what we now call life. These three things come together and make up the substance of what our life entails. “Tintern Abbey” makes us understand that nature itself can revise these past events and look to the future. Clearly, you can see that Wordsworth definitely knew what he was talking about. Works Cited Pearson Volume II Pages 780-785