Tintern Abbey Seeing Into The

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

pleasures”? If they are unremembered, how can we be thinking about them? This strange phrase might point to some vague pleasant experience in the past, one that we cannot clearly name. But it could also mean that we can now remember pleasures that previously not only unremembered but actually unnoticed. The thought of an unnoticed pleasure might seem strange as well. But is it so odd to think that, in memory, our pleasurable experiences take on new meaning and greater substance than they had at the time? Pleasant experiences are often over quickly or happen in a rush. We are so caught up in the experience that we can’t attend to all that is happening to us. Or, in some instances, when we are in the middle of some experience, we cannot grasp just what makes it special or wonderful. For what some experience means to us depends upon what came before it and, even more, what will follow from it. And, in the middle of an experience, we may forget what lead up to it ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

have lead him to fruitless endeavors, and when he has suffered from the “evil tongues,” “rash judgments,’ and “the sneers of selfish men” he points to later in the poem. Memories of the Wye raise the author’s spirits, and distance him from the concerns of his daily life. The author is able to step back and look at himself from above. The vision he presents of the soul leaving the body is not one of death but of release from the concerns of every day life. The author’s soul floats above his body. From that distance, the tensions of daily life is diminished, and replace by joy. This joy comes in no small part from the escape from ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: