Deist Pantheism in Tintern Abbey :: William Wordsworth Poetry

Tintern Abbey typifies William Wordsworths thirst to demonstrate what he sees as the oneness of the valet psyche with that of the world-wide mind of the cosmos. It is his pantheistic attempt to unfurl the essence of natures sublime brain-teaser that often evades understanding, marking his progression as a young source firmly rooted within the revolutionary tradition to one caught in perplexity about which way to proceed socially and morally, and further, to define for himself a new personal socio-political visual modality. Moreover, Tintern Abbey exhibits Wordsworths eclipsing of the Cartesian legal opinion in a talismanic creator who stands beyond the universe, echoing the ideas of Burach Spinoza, and redefining late eighteenth century free thought into a more personal, pantheist revision of nature. The poems portrayal of the intimate tie-up with nature implicitly underscores Wordsworths view on conventional religious belief as one surpassing commonly held interpretatio ns of the super internal. It conveys Wordsworths ideal of the universe as bound inextricably within the essence of all that is harmonious and natural -- a Oneness. It sympathetically depicts the inseparability of God from nature, the material-spirit of energy that, as Wordsworth portrays it, imbues the emotional state hug with . . . a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwell is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man A motion and a spirit, that impels All view things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. (96-103) In terms of Tintern Abbeys representational depiction of natures interconnection with the universe and humanity, the poem reveals Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Thelwalls implicit allure upon Wordsworths development as both a writer and naturalist poet. standardized to Wordsworth, for instance, John Thelwall illuminates the r adical spur of the human frame and other life forms in his scientific prose, such as found in his noted medical essay, Towards A Definition of Animal Vitality (1793). Thelwalls cosmic-monism fuses the workings of the human body to the movements of heaven and earth -- a holistic interconnection of the organic to the inorganic. His connection to Wordsworth through Coleridge serves to partially explain the inherent pantheistic vision in Tintern Abbeys 1798 composition.