Question

Identify the poem that begins with these lines: Five years have past; five summers, ;with the length Of five long winters !

• A. On His Blindness
• B. Tintern Abbey
• C. An Introduction
• D. Aboriginal Australia

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Tintern Abbey

The poem that begins with the lines:

"Five years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters!"

is "Tintern Abbey", officially titled "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13, 1798" by William Wordsworth.

About the Poem:

• Written in blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter).

• A key poem in Romantic poetry, exploring memory, nature, and personal growth.

• Wordsworth reflects on his return to Tintern Abbey after five years and how his perception of nature has changed.

• Part of Lyrical Ballads (1798), co-authored with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which marked the beginning of English Romanticism.