1. The Romantic Imagination
It has the power to "conjure" up images from the past in order to recreate the feeling or the experience in the present, "For our continued influxes of feelings are modified and directed by our thoughts, which are indeed the representatives of all our past feelings" (Wordsworth, Preface, 577). ... Indeed, the ability of the mind to create states of tranquility that lead to a close understanding of this "eternal act of creation" is found in both "Tintern Abbey" and "A Summer Evenings Meditation." ... Several passages throughout the poem show how by provoking "deep thoughts," images of natural b...
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