Wordsworth - Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

• 5 Years have passed since he's been to this spot
• He's relaxed under this sycamore tree before & he's doing it again now
• While he was away he was able to recall this landscape with accuracy
• He often recalled it while in towns & cities when he couldn't be there
• these memories bring him restorative tranquility when he needs it
• most of all he owes the memories lift the weight of the world from his shoulders - they allow him to carry on as a living soul and see into the life of things
• they influenced him with him knowing it - his ability to show kindness/love
• However, if this is false - he frequently turns to these memories for comfort
• with half-forgotten memories, with hints of sadness, the memory revives again
• These memories don't just bring him pleasure alone, but pleasure knowing this place will carry on in his memory for future years
• He knows he's changed from how he remembers it
• He came before escaping something he dreaded, than ran toward what he loved
• When he was a boy, nature was everything to him
• Even though the time has passed, he doesn't mourn it because new gifts have taken its place
• He has learned to look on nature "not as the honor of thoughtless youth, but now he can hear the still, sad music of humanity"
• He can now sense the sublimity of setting suns.... etc "in the mind of man"
• This is a motion and spirit that drives all thinking things and moves through all things
• for this reason, he still loves nature - it is the anchor of his purest thoughts and guardian of his heart, soul of his moral being.
• Even if he wasn't taught to love nature he would still feel this way because his sister is with him on the banks of the river
• in her voice he hears the language of his former heart, and see his old pleasures in her wild ways
• He asks nature to continue to allow him to do so knowing that nature never did betray
• nature leads "from joy to joy" and its power over the mind that seeks her out renders the mind impervious to "evil thoughts," "rash judgement," and "sneers of selfish men"
• it instead instills a "cheerful faith" that the world is full of blessings.
• He encourages the moon to shrink on her and the wind to blow against her, so that later in life she can recall this memory to help heal her if sad or fearful
• If he is dead, she can recall the love with which he loved nature.
• doing so, she will remember what the words meant to him, after which so many years' absence, they became more dear to him - both for themselves, and that she was a part of them.

Constant emjambment in line breaks (Browning later does this too)
Not a lot of farcy adjectives sounds to create a mood - language of the common man
A lot of thinking poems, this one is no different

• Him, looking at the universe

Simple & clear
Very minimal in the a lot of ways
"The stuff" becomes a way to explain (or discuss) something else
Also has a lot of people - watching poems