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William Wordsworth

This person is the author of "Tintern Abbey."

The Speaker

This persona is revisiting a favorite landscape; he is generally assumed to represent the poet himself.

The Vagrants

These unhoused people may or may not be hidden in the trees in the valley described in the poem.

The Hermit

This isolated ascetic may or may not be living in a cave in the valley described in the poem.

The Sister

This person is standing with the speaker looking out at the Wye; the poem is addressed to this person, generally assumed to be Dorothy Wordsworth.

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