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    This document analyzes William Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey" using ecocriticism. Ecocriticism examines the relationship between humans and the natural world in literature. The poem establishes this relationship by depicting the ruined Tintern Abbey set in a picturesque natural landscape, representing harmony between nature and human-made structures. Wordsworth realizes an important lesson - that unlike people, nature will never betray those who love it. The poem encourages readers to look to the past to build a better future relationship with nature for a more peaceful life. It promotes establishing harmony between humanity and the natural world.

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    This document analyzes William Wordsworth's poem "Tintern Abbey" using ecocriticism. Ecocriticism examines the relationship between humans and the natural world in literature. The poem establishes this relationship by depicting the ruined Tintern Abbey set in a picturesque natural landscape, representing harmony between nature and human-made structures. Wordsworth realizes an important lesson - that unlike people, nature will never betray those who love it. The poem encourages readers to look to the past to build a better future relationship with nature for a more peaceful life. It promotes establishing harmony between humanity and the natural world.

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    TINTERN

    ABBEY by
    William
    Wordsworth
    Using ecocriticism analysis
    By 7th Group
    ECOCRITICISM
    is

    The study of relationship between


    literature and the physical environment
    (Glotfelty and fromm, 1996).

    Ecocriticism investigates the relationship


    between humans and natural world in
    literature (Mambrol, 2016)

    2
    Tintern Abbey
    As described by one of the Wordsworth’s biographers, “Tintern
    Abbey” is a landscape poem in the eighteenthcentury tradition
    (Durrant, 1970, p. 87). Landscape is symbolic of the environment
    or Nature, and poetry is an important genre of literature. The very
    fact that “Tintern Abbey” is a landscape poem showcases that it is
    an ecocritical work which establishes a relation between Nature
    and literature.

    3
    Analysis
    with ecocriticism

    Nature vs Culture
    From the aesthetic point of view, the
    ruined Tintern Abbey, which was
    built with human hands, adds
    beauty to the picturesque scene of
    Nature. From religious angle, it is Nature as a symbol
    emblematic of the monks who were
    in harmony with Nature. of harmony Rewards for love of
    Life in the city is characterized by the nature
    uproar, agony and fretful situations.
    But Nature is a symbol of peace and Wordsworth realizes that unlike
    harmony. If the fretful life of the city human beings, Nature will never
    dominates Nature, humankind will betray ‘the heart that loved her’.
    become agitated, and life will Hence, if human beings safeguard
    become meaningless. If people Nature from all manmade dangers
    realize the importance of Nature, it and all environmental hazards, it
    will offer them a harmonious life. will in return guard, nurse and guide
    them.
    4
    Wordsworth, through the poem, “Tintern Abbey”, has shown a way to establish
    a better world and a better life, and has taught how a close relationship with
    Nature could be created in order to give birth to a peaceful and harmonious
    life in the world. He advises everyone to learn from the past. This is
    perceptible in the words of Geoffrey H. Hartman (1964) who claims that
    “Wordsworth’s poetry looks back in order to look forward the better” (p. 29).
    Thus, the poem, “Tintern Abbey”, is a typical ecocritical work which strives to
    promote a relationship between Nature and human being. It also indirectly
    advises every reader to look back and see how
    human beings have behaved towards Nature in the past, and what the
    consequences of their anthropocentric attitude towards Nature are. It also
    insists on the need to take proper measures to establish harmony with Nature.

    5
    Figurative languange
    Wherever nature led more like a man flying from something that he dreads,
    than one who sought the thing he loved.

    A simile is a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities


    between two different things.

    I make knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her

    Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing – an idea or an animal – is


    given human attributes.

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