Author: Ano Sensei
Format: Video
Structure: Blank verse, Iambic pentameter
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"Tintern Abbey", by William Wordsworth. COMPLETE Reading and analysis.
Topics covered include: the hermit and vagrants in the opening lines, the political shadow of the French Revolution, Wordsworth's relationship with nature as spiritual sustenance, the famous "sense sublime of something", Dorothy Wordsworth and what her presence means for the poem, and how Tintern Abbey compares with "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud."
This isn't a standard study guide — expect honest opinions, including on what works and what doesn't.
0:00 Introduction
0:11 Lines 1-23: An illustrated reading
1:34 Lines 1-23: Textual analysis
3:33 Overview of lines 1-23
4:07 The hermit and the vagrants
6:10 Lines 23-50: An illustrated reading
8:03 Lines 23-50: An analysis
10:17 Lines 50-58: An illustrated reading
10:52 Lines 50-58: An analysis
12:12 Lines 59-89: A illustrated reading
14:12 Lines 59-89: An analysis
14:55 The French Revolution
16:10 Lines 89-112: An illustrated reading
17:42 Lines 89-112: An analysis
19:24 Lines 112-160: An illustrated reading
22:22 Lines 112-160: An analysis
22:57 Wordsworth's sister
"Tintern Abbey" playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzVb6yL_jY6_JpXvgoIqoOnQ0K1wgZJu8
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I’m officially your no.1 fan. Thank you for your passion and detail on these poems, it makes my study of them much more enjoyable and much more easy to understand!! 🙂 – Im
Thank you for the feedback! I’m glad you found this video and I hope you will check my other poetry videos (here’s the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwI6PbYTLTM&list=PLzVb6yL_jY69EiXaYHcLdERHMUA7nub5u). And please share these videos with others at every opportunity; I love making them, but I’m not so good at spreading them around!
Thanks for the great effort sir! Indebted from India
You are most welcome! I am currently working on Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”, and there are several other videos on the poetry of the romantic period, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0qtVgOqBg&list=PLzVb6yL_jY6_WgZ0OypwCq7W3qTODKt5n&index=2
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