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Date:_____________
English 11 CP Poetry Study: “Tintern Abbey”
Directions: Using Wordworth’s poem, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern
Abbey” found on p. 726 in your book, work through each of these questions to help you
understand the poem’s meaning. Please answer questions on a separate sheet to turn in.
Lines 1-22
1. Where do you picture the poet standing in relation to the Wye and Tintern Abbey?
2. What emphasis on wildness is there in this section of lines?
3. What mood do the details establish?
Lines 22-49
4. Does this section continue with the description of the scene? Explain.
5. What effects do the “feelings of unremembered pleasure” have on a person?
6. What effect does this section have as you compare it with the first section of the
poem: has the mood changed? Do you feel closer to the poet here? Explain your
answers.
Lines 49-111
7. Back in the “joyless daylight” of the city, the poet senses what benefits from his
time in the woods?
8. What differences does the poet note about his separate reactions to the wilderness,
then and now?
9. What does the poet say about the value of his sister as a companion?
10. What does he hope for her in her later years?
Connections to the novel
11. Look again at Frankenstein to find three (3) descriptive passages in which Mary
Shelley shows how powerful is the beauty of the natural world to evoke “the joy
of elevated thoughts” and the feeling of the sublime.
12. Choose a section of the novel in which nature seems to exert an influence on a
specific character. What happens? Be specific and remember to cite your
passages.
13. How do the passages that you have identified from the novel and the poem
illustrate elements of Romanticism?