Essay Question 1: Although written over a hundred years apart, Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan” are both poems that reflect on particular moments in time and meditate on their historical significance. For Wordsworth, the moment was the beginning of the social revolution in France, and for Yeats it was the aftermath of the First World War (compared to the Trojan War—the subject of the poem). #
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the two different statements the poets is making in these poems about the role of man and Nature.