Friday, October 18, 2013
Comparing poems!
The poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is not all about nature, but the majority of it is about nature. I feel like this poem is more pointing towards mysticism. You probably can't go through 5 stanzas of this poem without reading something about the "deep seclusion" of nature. Frost at Midnight is more about Platonism in my opinion. All I see that takes notice to me in this poem is that the poet is more focused on the "cradled infant." I mean there are a few times where the poet mentions the "film" of the flame, but that poet acknowledges the nature and thinks that they are unchanging ideas. So yes I think that both poems inquire nature within them, but Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey is mysticism and you could tell within the first 10 lines, and Frost at Midnight looks more like mysticism at first but as you continue on reading you could tell the main subject of the poem and you could tell that it's pointing more towards Platonism.
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