Kannon TeekahDr. Nicholson Eng. 232. 100525 November 2013Understanding the sublime The sublime experience is an experience of greatness. It is of such excellence, grandeur and beauty that it inspires great admiration and amazement. In the poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” by Williamworth and the poem “Mont Blanc” by Percy Shelley, both authors address the sublime state of mind. They have great reverence for the beauty of nature and feel closely connected to the power of nature. Inworth, you can truly identify the intense imagery that brings the poem to life. The beginning of the poem's imagery is so vivid that you almost feel like you are seeing the beauty of nature from her eyes. You can identify the connection with all the poems because they question the meaning of the interchange between nature and the human mind. However, although almost all address the same message, the main ways in which they approach the sublime experience vary. Worth's poem "Tintern Abbey" is a complex poem, dealing with memory, mortality, faith in nature and love. Worth opens the poem by telling the reader that it has been five years since he was last in this place a few miles from the abbey. Worth emphasizes the act of return by making constant use of repetition: "It's been five years; five summers , with the duration / Of five long winters! and still I feel / These waters…” (Wordsworth 351). He also uses the phrase “once again” to introduce the natural beauty of the River Wye area. Worth's opening words are very important because he wants to convey the beauty of the images. He wants to recognize that this beauty is timeless because even though he hasn't seen it in five years, his memories of the scene have inspired and supported him over that period of time. In the second stanza, Worth tells his readers that it is the first