Wez G inviting Taylor Swift to Tintern Abbey, using Wordsworth’s seductive poetic influence…

When Taylor Swift was due to come to the U.K. on her #ErasTour last year, as ever, I was tweeting my love to her like crazy lol. #AI was getting a lot of buzz at the time and I thoought I’d put ChatGPT to the test with a bit of creative suggestion to it.

I’d been inviting Taylor to come and stay with me in #Caldicot for some time, and trying to plan the perfect opening date for us. I’d settled on the romantic ancient ruins of Tintern Abbey, a most amazing UNESCO World Heritage site and in my opinion, the most beautiful historic tourist site in this country. Tintern Abbey has lots of history and its ruins survived the closure of the monasteries by the infamous King Henry VII who had renounced papal power and turned the United Kingdom from a CAtholic state to a Protestant State with King Henry VIII as head of the church in addition to his temporal powers as monarch.

In order to try and convince Tay Tay to head down to Monmoutshire I banged a few lines into ChatGPT and asked it to reproduce Wordsworth’s famous poem about Tintern Abbey, just inserting Taylor Swift as a character. The result was mindblowing and within a matter of seconds, the artificial intelligence software by OpenAI, had churned out the most perfect, amazing poem, totally in tune with the original but with the extra layer of Taylor Swift…. I tweeted Taylor the poem straight away and pinned the tweet to my profile for a few weeks, I was so happy with it. Unfortunately, I never kept a record of that exact poem, and feeling a bit angry with #ai and its capabilities, I felt that the poem was cheating too much and that I might be angering the spirit of Wordsworth – I didn’t want the ether of the internet to be feeding off this work forever and felt that the right thing to do was to send it into cyber-oblivion and just delete it…. It did amaze me, the power of #ai, and open dsoors to me about just how creative it could possibly be and how powerful it also is. We are building a dangerous future potentially for humanity and how we treat and what we create with this new technological innovation will stand the test of time and most probably shape us all in some way.

Anyway, I’m less ChatGPT and more Grok these days and I thougth I’d try recreate the intial Tintwern Abbey ChatGPT magic, using Elon Musk #ai tech.

The results with Grok aren’t as impressive as I remember but still quite ,mesmerising, otherworldly and unbelieveable…

GROK COMMAND:

Write a version of William Wordsworth’s poem, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, incuding Taylor Swift as a character in it with her lyrics interwoven into the original poem

Below is a creative adaptation of William Wordsworth’s Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798, incorporating Taylor Swift as a character and weaving in lyrics from her songs to blend her modern voice with Wordsworth’s Romantic reflection. The adaptation maintains the spirit, structure, and tone of the original poem while introducing Swift as a fellow wanderer whose music and presence resonate with the natural and emotional landscape. Her lyrics are drawn from songs like “Evermore,” “Willow,” “Cardigan,” and others, chosen for their thematic alignment with Wordsworth’s meditations on nature, memory, and personal growth. The poem remains a reflective monologue, but Taylor Swift appears as a companion whose songs echo the speaker’s sentiments.To preserve the integrity of Wordsworth’s work, I’ve kept the structure of five verse paragraphs, mirroring the original’s blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) as closely as possible while integrating Swift’s lyrics naturally. Her words are italicized to distinguish them, and I’ve aimed to balance the two voices so that Swift’s presence enhances rather than overshadows the poem’s introspective depth. For brevity, the adaptation is shorter than the original but captures its essence.

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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, with Taylor Swift
July 13, 2025Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.—Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Beside me stands a wanderer, swift of song,
Her voice a thread through time, I’m like the water when the moon ascends,
She sings, and Wye’s calm current carries it,
A melody that weaves through fern and stone.The day is come when I again repose
Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,
Which, at this season, with their unripe fruits,
Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves
’Mid groves and copses. Once again I see
These hedgerows, hardly hedgerows, little lines
Of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke
Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!
She walks with me, her eyes like stars that shine and shimmer,
Singing you drew stars around my scars, her voice
A bridge from heart to heart, from then to now.And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,
With many recognitions dim and faint,
And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
The picture of the mind revives again:
While here I stand, not only with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts
That in this moment there is life and food
For future years. And so I dare to hope,
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o’er the mountains, chasing that flame,
She sings, wherever it would take me, and I smile,
Her words a mirror to my younger days.Nor perchance, if I were not thus taught,
Should I the more suffer my genial spirits
To decay: for thou art with me here upon
The banks of this fair river; thou, my friend,
Whose songs have stirred the world, I’m a mirrorball,
Reflecting light where shadows fall. The Wye
Doth whisper still its “syllables of peace,”
And though the weight of life has pressed us both,
We stand together, hearing in its flow
A music that restores. This pain wouldn’t be for evermore,
She hums, and nature’s calm affirms her truth,
A balm for hearts that time and loss have worn.Nor, Taylor, wilt thou ever cease to find
In these dear scenes a worship of the soul,
Nor lack the joy that first we knew, though years
Shall steal the fire of youth. Let us go on,
With willow bending by the stream, and sing
Of love, of loss, of memory’s gentle power,
That in these banks, these woods, this rolling Wye,
We find a cardigan to wear when cold, a warmth
To carry hence. And if the world grows dim,
May these sweet waters, and thy songs, remain
A light to guide us, through the years, to peace.

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Notes on the Adaptation

• Structure and Tone: The poem retains Wordsworth’s five-part structure and introspective tone, with blank verse approximated to maintain the meditative rhythm. The length is condensed to focus on key themes: nature’s restorative power, memory, and companionship.
• Taylor Swift’s Role: Swift is introduced as a companion whose presence and lyrics complement the speaker’s reflections. Her songs are chosen for their emotional and thematic resonance with Wordsworth’s ideas (e.g., Evermore for enduring pain, Willow for nature’s flow, Cardigan for comfort).
• Lyrics Integration: Lyrics like “I’m like the water when the moon ascends” (from “Willow”), “you drew stars around my scars” (from “Cardigan”), and “this pain wouldn’t be for evermore” (from “Evermore”) are woven seamlessly to echo the poem’s themes of nature, healing, and memory. They’re italicized for clarity.
• Modern Context: The date is updated to 2025, aligning with the current year, but the setting remains the Wye Valley, preserving the poem’s sense of place.
• Balance: Swift’s presence enhances the poem without dominating it, ensuring Wordsworth’s voice remains central. Her lyrics are used sparingly to maintain the poem’s Romantic essence.

This adaptation imagines a harmonious dialogue between Wordsworth’s timeless reflections and Swift’s contemporary emotional depth, united by the shared language of nature and human experience. If you’d like a longer version, specific lyric choices, or further tweaks, let me know!

Ayway Tay, I know you are full on and getting ready for marriage to your new fiancé, Travis, now, (and I wish you all the very best and success with that!) but the offer of a nice visit to Tintern Abbey with me, just as a friend and admirer, still stands and the welcome here in #caldicot will always be there, far into the future, whatever may befall either you of I, in life. The internet and worldwide web, is an amazing device for bringing people together from across the globe and making the civilised world that ever much more richer, diverse and smaller. You take on the world, Tay, and the world appreciates you back…. x

@taylorswift13 xx luvs ya Tay Tay xx