There are many reasons why the extract could not be the work of William Wordsworth. The most important is that the extract does not have the personal tone or the very full sense of immediate experience that is found in a Wordsworth poem such as "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." Where Wordsworth's poem places the speaker in intimate contact with nature and that contact has an effect on his personal troubles, nature in the extract is seen on a grand scale that dwarfs the speaker. Wordsworth is concrete, a lover of nature, and discovers the loving nature of God in the poems' settings. The author of the extract, on the other hand, is abstract in approach, looks on nature with a combination of terror and awe, and discovers that nature can speak of greater things only if the individual is capable of feeling its majesty deeply enough.
The difference in scale is the first thing a reader notices. Where the extract refers to the "remoter world" and to "the soul" in general, Wordsworth's poems begin by establishing place and the speaker's relationship to place. The full title "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798" shows just how important a definite place, time, and situation could be to Wordsworth. The opening lines follow with more information. Since this is a "revisiting" of the spot he tells exactly how long it has been between visits. He then goes on to establish the site firmly and very specifically in the reader's mind. From the relatively broad elements of the scene that made up his memory when he was away(i.e., "These waters", "these steep and lofty cliffs") the speaker moves to the immediate present and cites a single tree, a group of cottages, and progressively opens the view up with "these hedge-rows" and "these pastoral farms" until, off in the distance, he makes out the smoke of a campfire rising from the distant woods.
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