The Force Through Poetry

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15 Feb 2013 22:25 #94612 by
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I am currently studying Wordsworth in my British Literature survey class, and we read Tintern Abbey today. I have copied a piece of the poem below because I feel that these lines specifically relate to the force. My professor mentioned that they could be referring to God, but she actually told us that she sees the force that Wordsworth is talking about here as more similar to the force in Star Wars than it is to a god. I was wondering if anyone else had thoughts on the matter or pieces of other poems that spoke to them as embodying parts of their own personal spirituality through Jediism.


And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear,--both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognise
In nature and the language of the sense,
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being.

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16 Feb 2013 05:02 #94633 by Whyte Horse
Sorry to hear you had to read British poetry :( . This poem is about the self... the "moral being"... the superego?

"I am Jack's smirking revenge"

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

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16 Feb 2013 16:32 #94667 by
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This passage is also about the interconnectedness of all things, though. It is about the energy that connects nature and the human mind and that flows through all things. Wouldn't this relate to the force as many Jedi believe in it?

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