Thoughts of more deep seclusion

While Wordsworth remembers visiting Tintern Abbey in his youth, the power of his thought in reproducing the memory transcends that of the sight of the “wild secluded scene” before him. For Wordsworth, the settling of memories over time provides thoughts more valuable than the experience itself. Wordsworth’s time in nature is most worthwhile for the memories it provides while he is away from it. He has “learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of "thoughtless youth” but time and again as an “elevated thought” while “in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din of towns and cities.” In fact, the actual experience is rather insignificant altogether, for “unremembered pleasure” is just as useful.

Wordsworth takes nature and uses it beyond the wilderness. He takes the intimacy he has created with nature in his mind overtime and uses it to be intimate with others. In youth, we experience nature; in maturity, we interpret nature; and in death, we become nature.