Various Literary Characters

B. Tintern Abbey: Tintern Abbey is a ruin in Monmouthshire in the Wye Valley. William Wordsworth visited this place on a walking tour in 1793 when he was 23 years of age, and he would return there in 1798 and use the occasion to recall his earlier visit and to write the poem "Lines" with the subscript "Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey." The Abbey serves as an image of the way nature and the man-made intertwine. It also becomes a reason for the poet to remember his sister and the lessons he learned from her, much as he recalls the lessons he has learned from nature.

C. A wedding guest: A wedding guest is a central figure in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The wedding guest is stopped by the mariner outside the wedding, and he listens to the story told by the Mariner. In essence, the Mariner gains control of the wedding guest through hypnosis and so mesmerizes him with the story he h

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ure is not separated from the human world--it is rather the origin of it. Indeed, the primary lesson of "Tintern Abbey" is that human beings are related to the natural world. They can never escape it and should not try. They should rather embrace it. III. John Keats elevates the poetic imagination in works that are highly reflective, and he often examines the nature of art itself as he considers how artistic expression is related to time. This can be seen in his poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" in which the poet speaks directly to the reader and describes the scene painted on the side of the urn. There is an immediacy in the way Keats describes the scene and comments on the action. He sees on the side of this urn images of life--people reveling, dancing in the woods, singing, playing music, and so on. The entire image is of a moment frozen in time, a joyous moment in which people are laughing and cavorting and now will be doing so forever because of the way the scene has been captured forever by a long-ago artist. The poet is thus responding immediately to the images he sees on the urn, to the ideas that the scene brings to his mind, and to the way he feels about those ideas. The poet's argument is simply that the artist h
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