Reader Response to William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey

<Tab/>My first impression of Tintern Abbey was unenthusiastic, marked by my own superficial reading. However, by perusing it more carefully, the thought, the meaning, and the apparent nebulousness into a strangely enlightening piece. The setting is at once unfamiliar to me, but dwelling on more distant memories, I, too, can connect with the thrusts and positions of the narrator, Wordsworth. Through a period of growth, a previously insensible and philistine …

…elevated thoughts". (93-94) If it were not so, then hiking, national parks, and selling CDs with tracks of running water and waterfall sounds would not be so popular. In the end, I sense that Wordsworth's attitudes are unrealistic, for in the end, All man and I are destined, however foolhardy not to have "A worshipper of Nature" (152), but nature is cursed for our sake, and the inevitability is toil and the sweat on our brow.