In his poem “Tintern Abbey”, Wordsworth uses one technical device I found particularly intriguing: he switches the places of people and the natural world, so that nature is personified and humanity is, effectively, nature-ized. Wordsworth describes himself as wandering “like a cloud,” and describes the field of daffodils as a dancing crowd of people. This switch, personification and de-personification, implies a kind of interchangeability; metaphors from either sphere can be applied to the other, because the human mind and the natural world are fundamentally entwined. Wordsworth describes the air as “living” and himself as “like a roe/ bound[ing] o’er the mountains”. Each adjective enforces this spirit of connectedness, and ultimately, I think, makes the poem flow conceptually. Even the poem’s title, “Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” reflects nature’s integration into the fabric of the human world— Wordsworth composes the lines adjacent to ruins of an abbey, a place of human residence and worship, ultimately overtaken by nature. The natural world has filled the spaces which humans once occupied, with the abbey becoming a sort of perfect metaphor for the connectedness between nature, humanity, and the reverent spirit with which Wordsworth connects the two.