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 accomplishes