{"id":139,"date":"2023-02-07T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T22:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/?p=139"},"modified":"2023-02-07T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T22:21:00","slug":"that-time-is-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/2023\/02\/07\/that-time-is-past\/","title":{"rendered":"that time is past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">William Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cTintern Abbey\u201d is a reflective monologue written in blank verse and iambic pentameter. Although this pattern is sometimes broken so as to adhere to a more natural way of speaking, which matches the theme of self-reflection and the inner thoughts that the speaker is having as he gazes on Tintern Abbey and the surrounding nature. I chose part of the third stanza to focus on, because of the way that the speaker refers to his younger self seeing the same sights his \u201cmature\u201d self is seeing now.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This stanza describes the noticeable change in the speaker\u2019s demeanor and the way he relates to nature from adolescence to adulthood while revisiting old places that are steeped in memory. While reminiscing about his youth, the speaker does not look back sadly like nostalgia sometimes can be. Instead, he is content to remember rather than try to replicate his bond to the natural world, acknowledging that he now looks at nature in a different way. He does not \u201cmourn nor murmur\u201d for \u201cother gifts have followed\u201d (87-88) his loss of his childhood fervor for nature. Now, he looks upon the views of nature described in the poem \u201cnot as in the hour of thoughtless youth\u201d but now \u201chearing oftentimes the still sad music of humanity\/nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power\/to chasten and subdue\u201d (91-94). He appreciates nature more calmly now, seeing humanity in it as opposed to believing himself as one with nature, inseparable and wild. He describes this by likening himself to a deer, nature for him then, he says, was \u201call in all\u201d (76). The speaker references the \u201ccoarser pleasures of my boyish days\/And their glad animal movements,\u201d (74-75) again attributing his younger self as something uncontrollable and intense like a wild animal. He describes nature as it was then passionately, \u201caching joys\u201d and \u201cdizzy raptures,\u201d (85-86) but clarifies that those times are now past.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cTintern Abbey\u201d is a reflective monologue written in blank verse and iambic pentameter. Although this pattern is sometimes broken so as to adhere to a more natural way of speaking, which matches the theme of self-reflection and the inner thoughts that the speaker is having as he gazes on Tintern Abbey and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/2023\/02\/07\/that-time-is-past\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">that time is past<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}