Monday, April 20, 2015

"Lines composed over three thousand miles from Tintern Abbey"

For your entertainment, here is a link to Billy Collins' poem responding to Wordsworth. He is mocking the idea that things are never like they once were and even memory doesn't allow us to recapture "the way it was." This is, of course, a radical simplification of Wordsworth's point, but it foregrounds how Wordsworth's poem trades in nostalgia.

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