Deist Pantheism in Tintern Abbey :: William Wordsworth Poetry

Tintern Abbey typifies William Wordsworths desire to demonstrate what he sees as the oneness of the homosexual psyche with that of the universal mind of the cosmos. It is his pantheistic attempt to unfurl the amount of money of reputations majestic mystery that often evades understanding, marking his progression as a young writer firmly rooted within the revolutionary tradition to one caught in perplexity about which way to proceed socially and morally, and further, to define for himself a new personal socio-political vision. Moreover, Tintern Abbey exhibits Wordsworths eclipsing of the Cartesian belief in a uncanny creator who stands beyond the universe, echoing the ideas of Burach Spinoza, and redefining late eighteenth century deism into a more personal, pantheist revision of nature. The poems portrayal of the intimate connection with nature implicitly underscores Wordsworths view on conventional religious belief as one surpassing commonly held interpretations of the sup ernatural. It conveys Wordsworths ideal of the universe as bound inextricably within the essence of all that is harmonious and natural -- a Oneness. It sympathetically depicts the inseparability of God from nature, the material-spirit of energy that, as Wordsworth portrays it, imbues the life force with . . . a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man A effect and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. (96-103) In terms of Tintern Abbeys naturalistic depiction of natures interconnection with the universe and humanity, the poem reveals Samuel Taylor Coleridge and illusion Thelwalls implicit influence upon Wordsworths development as both a writer and naturalist poet. Similar to Wordsworth, for instance, John Thelwall illuminates the organic spur of the human frame and another(prenominal) life forms in his scientific prose, such as found in his celebrated medical essay, Towards A Definition of Animal Vitality (1793). Thelwalls cosmic-monism fuses the workings of the human body to the movements of heaven and earth -- a holistic interconnection of the organic to the inorganic. His connection to Wordsworth through Coleridge serves to partially explain the inherent pantheistic vision in Tintern Abbeys 1798 composition.