Yoon, Joon. Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’: A Pedagogical Approach to Its Modes of Existence and Issues. The New Studies of English Language & Literature 49 (2011): 79-101. Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” both an apex of his earlier poetry and a showcase of his view of nature, has attracted a large amount of attention from readers and scholars. Indeed, it serves well as a convenient scaffold to explore such issues of Romantic poetics as the transaction between nature and the human mind, the construction of the Romantic subject, and dialogic relations between the poets or intertextuality. As a typical Romantic meditative poem it seemingly focuses on the landscape but what is implied in it grows more articulate in the process of the speaker’s consistent meditation. In the poem the poet does not, as is often criticized by the New Historicists, “displace” or “erase” both the French Revolution and the contemporary socio-economic realities but presents a comprehensive vision of his self and the human society based on his own view of our communion with nature. Moreover, from the ecological standpoint, the poem “offers ... a meditation on the networks which link mental and environmental space” (Bate 148) and accordingly continues to be a matter of our serious discussions in the classroom. (PaiChai University)