As a poet of “Lakeside School”, Wordsworth has been expressing his praise and love for nature in his poems all his life. Wordsworth depicted nature in a detailed way in Tintern Abbey-the last writing of his lyric ballads by adding a lot of subjective thoughts and using plain language to express the ecological view of the harmony between man and nature which makes the whole poem full of natural scenes and philosophy. The natural environment, economy, politics and social factors in the poet's life cast Wordsworth's poetic style, and also made him go through the process of “getting to know nature for the first time”–“getting away from nature”-“returning to nature”–“transcending nature”. In today's ecological literary criticism research, Wordsworth's ecological consciousness and sense of hardship increasingly highlight its diachronic and practical significance. From the perspective of ecologism, based on previous studies, this paper analyzes the content and background of the poem, deeply interprets the connotation of ecologism in the poem, reflects on the reconstruction of the relationship between social development and natural ecology, and tries to find the philosophical ideas that guide us to face the dilemma of life and the current ecological problems.

Wang Ting. Reinterpretation of Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey from the Perspective of Ecological Consciousness. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 1: 103-109. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2024.070116.

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