Compare & Contrast Mont Blanc & Tintern Abbey

Shelleys Mont Blanc and Wordsworths Tintern Abbey are poems written regarding temperament and its connection to benignantity, deities and the human consciousness these poems can be memorialise as a conversation between each other and their creators.A conversation where Shelley not only echoes and agrees with many of Wordsworths views regarding nature and its awe- inspiring beauty, ability to hex and the presence of majestical divinity amongst all told things subjective tho also, a conversational moment where Shelley steps away from Wordsworth by expressing different views regarding the type of power nature exudes and how nature should affect and effect the human consciousness and life.Where Wordsworth feels peace, Shelley feels fear Wordsworth sees himself amongst nature, Shelley sees himself amongst man and gains a greater understanding of the surrounding natural world. In the poems, Mont Blanc and Tintern Abbey their is a description of a landscape that, for the writer, the sight brings upon a philosophical questioning and reflection in which some(prenominal) writers gain a better and kabbalisticer birth with nature. In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth writes And mountains and of all that we behold From this green background of all the mighty worldOf eye, and ear, both what they half create, And what perceive well pleased to recognize In nature and the language of the sense, (104-109) Wordsworth believes that the natural world they see and their mind are directly connected, a philosophy that Shelley agrees with and echoes in his writings of Mont Blanc I seem as in a enamor sublime and strange To muse on my own separate phantasy, My own, my human mind, which passively Now renders and receives fast influencing, Holding and unremitting interchange With the light up being of things around (35-40)Wordsworth writes of the eye and ear and their conjoined and equal creative force, meaning it is not only what is seen but also what is heard that works with the minds understanding of viewing the natural world. Neither man can look at nature without looking at their mind and pondering on their ability to aid in the creation of the scene that unfolds. For Shelley, it is not the eye nor ear of Wordsworths writings but quite it is My own, my human mind (MB 37) rapidly rendering and receiving a clear depiction of nature. Shelley echoes the musings of Wordsworth regarding a divine presence amongst the workings of nature.Wordsworth writes of A motion and a spirit that rolls through with(predicate) all things while Shelley writes of, The everlasting universe of things that flows through the mind. Shelleys poem echoes Wordsworths ideas by writing of a flowing movement to reflect upon Wordsworths rolling movement the use of both rowing depict a definitive unstoppable force, constant in motion, guided by unseen momentum and most importantly something that is being controlled by neither nature nor their minds this use relates both poems to that of a divine being or guiding force.While the inclusion of their mind in the experience and the presence of a greater being are in agreement, it is regarding the importance and feeling of humanity and the power of nature, are where the ideas and views of Wordsworth and Shelley begin to differ. Shelley diverts from the original musings of Wordsworth and that of Tintern Abbey regarding the feelings of nature altering or fetching over the soul, transforming it from that of human to that of nature.In Tintern Abbey, Wordsworth is one with nature he feels disconnected from humanity and his mind, body and soul work together with nature. When he thinks back to a circumstance scene and moment, he is then transported there and becomes one with the nature around him. No longer being a human witness but instead becoming a part of nature itself. Wordsworth writes Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills when like a roeI bounded oer the mountains, by the sid es Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led more like a man Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then To me was all in all (66 75) Wordsworths relationship with nature is honest and nurturing, he gives life to the scene through his mind and in return the moment gives him peace and comfort, he steps away from his humanity and becomes one with nature.However, Shelleys view of nature differs from that of Wordsworths and is shown within his writings his relationship with nature is one at odds with man nature grows and lives to its immense inspired power and this display of power effects the ease and comfort of the human mind and humanity. The size, depth, danger, darkness and power of nature reminds him of his fragile humanity while also creating the question of how it can it be so powerful and all consuming when the human mind is its partial inventor.Wordsworth states that Nature never did betray the heart th at loved her (TA 122), Shelley believes, nature revels in its power, fear inducing and awe inspiring capabilities, imbalance and ability to make small of the human observing in its wake. Shelley believes nature tricks the human to believe it is inconsequential in not only relation to but also in opposition to nature he also proves nature dishonest in its created feelings of ease and safety. The fields, the lakes, the forests and the streams,Oceans, and all the living things that dwell With in the intricately formed earth lightning and rain Earthquake, and fiery flood, and hurricane. (84 87) In this passage, Shelley mentions the peaceful nature of Wordsworth, followed immediately by the nature he sees and feels the nature of power, destruction, instability, and terror. Shelley speaks of deception and secrets regarding the mighty mountain and its being from the slaphappy Ravine (MB 34) to some shade of thee, / Some phantom, some faint image (MB 46 47) and The glaciers that creep / Like snakes that watch there prey, from their far fountains, (MB 100 101) his use of these descriptions and words creates a strong feeling of uncertainty regarding the comfort and safety that is empowered in Wordsworths writings. Shelley turns away from the tame landscape with the quiet sky (TA 8), The banks of this pleasing stream (TA 150) and the clear, bright and exact view seen through Wordsworths mind and eye instead he gives us the wild and fantastic Thus thou, Ravine of Arve dark, deep Ravine-Thou many-coloured, many-voiced vale, Over whose pines, and crags, and caverns sail Fast cloud shadows and sunbeams awful scene Bursting through these dark mountains like the flame Of lightning through the tempest (12 19) The use of many-coloured and many-voiced, emphasizing the wild, untamed unpredictability that Shelley believes to be true in nature. Shelleys feeling of deception regarding nature and humanities place amongst it questions the answers Wordsworth has deposed upon D orothy and the reader in Tintern Abbey.Wordsworth is purely content accept nature to be the nurturing mother to his human imaginative and spiritual mind, there is no question or doubt within his mind that nature provide ease him in times of need, bring him life and peace when driven to thoughts of nature he feels that his mind is along for the ride that nature beauty has unveil and it will always result in a feeling of comfort, acceptance and oneness with the wilderness. However Shelley questions who is the nurturer, the creator and the holder of power.While we are minute in sensual size to the depth of nature and its beauty, the mind is the inventor of the feelings and visualizations of such sublimity. In other words, how does the human mind pale in comparison to the mighty godlike force of nature if the human mind is what created such a formidable foe And what were thou, and earth, and stars, and sea, / If to the human minds imaginings / Silence and solitude were vacancy? (MB 142 144).