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| | Miall -- "Tintern", Frappied on Loss, 2 |
 | | I propose a psychological reading of the final verse paragraph of 'Tintern Abbey,' (see: 2, 2a, 2b) and consider 'Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont' and 'Surprised by joy--impatient as the wind,' and others, as interesting examples of how Wordsworth deals imaginatively with loss.[4] |
 | | The only significant action--though it is action only in the sense that William hopes it is something that might happen--in the whole paragraph deals with his reappearance in Dorothy's life after his disappearance from it (see: 3, 3a). |
 | | In verse paragraph six, he is telling her that if he dies before she does, her memory of viewing these unchanging entities in nature with him will keep him unchanged (despite the fact that he would be decomposing in the grave) in her memory. |
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