William Wordsworth gave a great message through this poem. He started off saying how he hasn’t been to Tintern Abbey in so long, but the place still has a great effect on him. In the lines “These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man’s eye,” Wordsworth expresses that although he hasn’t been there in a while, he has never forgotten the place. The memories have offered great comfort to him and have even affected his actions. He realizes that the last time he was at the abbey, he was juvenile and not aware of the world, but now he is grown up and knows the horrors of humanity. And although he has seen the world’s cruelty, he still appreciates nature and the aesthetic things in life. He tells his sister to put this place in her mind and remember the simplicity, beauty, and naturalness that really makes up the world behind all the awfulness. I believe Wordsworth’s main message is that we forget what is true and wonderful in this world. We need to remember that beauty, like what is still observed at Tintern Abbey, and we can’t get caught up in the unpleasantness of humanity.
I can connect to this poem with the camp I work at over the summer. I was a camper there for 10 years and this coming summer will be my 4th summer working there. And I feel that no matter how much changes in the world around the camp, nothing inside it changes. Everything is beautiful and appreciated, especially the nature growing all through its land. I could see Wordsworth having a similar feeling at this camp like the one he has at Tintern Abbey.
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