Comparing Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey And Frankenstein

Both "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and Frankenstein utilize literary devices like imagery to display aspects of beauty and terror of nature.
Both Shelley and the narrator from “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” admire nature’s beauty. In Frankenstein, the beauty of lightning astonishes Victor. He “saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures… the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, [lightning](73).” Shelley utilizes imagery to emphasize the beauty of lightning as it changes forms. She also personifies lightning to lighten its destructive properties and give it a childlike attribute. Even though Victor does not want to be shocked by lightning, he cannot avoid watching its many beautiful forms. Likewise, in “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” the author admires the beauty of a roaring river as he watches its many forms.
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.
In the first part of the quote, after five years, the author shows his longing to hear the beautiful sounds of the river and witness the

scenes around it again. The author uses personification when he uses murmurs to show that the river is as beautiful as life.The narrator looks to the river like a fellow human for support.
The authors admire the frightening aspect of nature.

While watching the lightning, Victor sees the “deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed [him] that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom [he] had given life.(73)” Therefore, lightning identifies with both qualities of the beauty as it destroys the objects it strikes which symbolizes the creature’s destructive powers on the people that Victor loves. Even though the creature is not beautiful, the lightning represents the creatures desire for the beautiful things in life, but since he does not get them he resorts to ruining other individuals lives especially that of his creator. Like the lightning, the creature is like a child because he does not know much about the world, since his creator just created

him.
In darkness and amid the many shapes
Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart—
How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee,
O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods,
The author uses the chaos of the rivers waves to help calm his internal issues. The second part of the quote involves the author apostrophizing the river to call out to it during difficult times. The fear of the scenes around him make him want to use the river as a form of comfort. The author looks to the river in both times of happiness as well as sorrow and worry.
In both stories, nature plays a vital role; in Frankenstein, lightning's beautiful forms and terrifying strike display elements of the creature and in "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the river provides peace for the restless narrator.