Frankenstein 7

"Their colours and their forms, were then to him an appetite; a feeling, and a love, that had no need of a remoter charm, by thought supplied, or any interest unborrowd from the eye." (145)

This poem titled Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth is incorporated by Shelley to explain the comfort that Frankenstein’s creation feels from being in the wilderness, out among nature. Since he cannot draw the fascination and love he needs from other human beings, he finds all of that with the serenity and aloneness of being in the woods. Since the creation relates being among other people to pain and vulnerability, he would naturally find comfort in things that he had absolutely no control over, and had no control over him. 

Works Cited:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19411