William Wordsworth existed in a time when society and its functions were beginning to rapidly pick up. The poem that he “Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye…” gave him a chance to reflect upon his quick paced life by taking a moment to slow down and absorb the beauty of nature that allows one to “see into the life of things” (line 49). Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” takes you on a series of emotional states by trying to sway “readers and himself, that the loss of innocence and intensity over time is compensated by an accumulation of knowledge and insight.” Wordsworth a