hedge-rows

__Hedgerows__ are lines of bushes or shrubs, that are typically used to separate land between neighboring properties. Early in "Tintern Abbey" there is a contrast between wild and domestic hedgerows, emphasizing the contrast between the natural and human world. Most domestic hedgerows are used as separation boundaries, but the speaker sees this as a distorition of reality. He does not believe they actually separate anything. To him, everything in nature is real, but in the human world, things are often skewed simply to what society declares them to be. This, along with "wreaths of smoke" (17) coming from homes in the trees, present a early tension between man and nature.