Tintern Abby

"The sounding cataract

Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock,

The mountain, and the deep and gloomy woods,

Their colours and their forms, were then to him

An appetite; afeeling, and a love,

That had no need of a remoter charm,

By thought supplied, or any interest

Unborrow'd from the eye." (113)

This poem was written by Wordsworth and is called Tintern Abbey or Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. It was written in July 13, 1798. This poem is in the novel to show how important nature is to the restoration of characters. Clerval restored Frankenstein back to health multiple times and he brings him to natural phenomenons.

Landry, Peter. "Tintery Abbey". A Blue Pete Poetry Pick. August 27, 2008. <http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Poetry/WordsworthTinternAbbey.htm>