Mind's+Eye

The speaker mentions "the eye" throughout the poem, referring to both the mind's eye and the human eye. Because he sees the landscape //not// like the "blind man's eye" (24), his imagination is vivid and allows him to revisit his experiences in nature, and this leads him to deep personal thought. This contrasts with his younger self, who was captivated by the beauty of nature and did not appreciate anything "unborrowed from the (human) eye" (83). These different kinds of eyes help to present the main focus of "Tintern Abbey," how people change when they mature.