This allows him to further appreciate the rural nature surrounding the abbey, and perhaps to feel closer to it himself.
He describes the way in which he now sees this presence visible in all things and connecting them. He explains that although his life has lost the fast-paced and confusing nature of his youth, he has gained the perception of “a presence that disturbs with the joy of elevated thoughts a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused” (Lines 94-96). He reflects on the way he used to hastily pass through nature “more like a man flying from something he dreads, than one who sought the thing he loved” (Lines 70-71). Eventually, the narration returns to the present visit to the abbey and the narrator expresses that he has undergone some change in perspective since his boyhood years. He then says that he maintains vibrant memories of these things and has frequently recalled them over the past years while he was living in the city. He pays special attention to describing the nature and the pastoral landscape of the area around the abbey.
The narrator of the poem begins by reflecting on the memories that he has of the last time that he visited the abbey. The poem is composed almost entirely in blank verse and is divided into paragraphs of varying lengths rather than formal stanzas. William Wordsworth wrote his poem entitled “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” about the feelings that he experienced when he revisits the abandoned Tintern Abbey after five years of being away.
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