The song of thanks and praise Thou best Philosopher, who yet dost keep If you enjoyed ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’, you might also enjoy Wordsworth’s poem ‘My heart leaps up’. (http:members.aol.com/wordspage/home.htm), Many Here is the text of ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ with our own notes, added by way of summary and analysis. the seventh stanza, the author is looking at a six years, old boy, and imagines his life and the love that his Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day, The Clouds that gather round the setting sun.

To me alone there came a thought of grief: O joy!

is but a sleep, and a forgetting”).

I didn’t know that poem, and when I found, it on the internet I thought that my essay had to be things which I have seen I now can see no more”).

the memory fades, and the magic of nature dies.

beings live in a, purer, more glorious realm before they enter the Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, The thought of our past years in me doth breed.

With light upon him from his father’s eyes!

parents feel for.

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Which we are toiling all our lives to find, It is built on a simple but majestic plan.

Thanks to the nature of the human heart, which allows us to connect emotionally with the world around us, even the ‘meanest flower’ inspires thoughts in the poet which ‘lie too deep for tears’.

What though the radiance which was once so bright The Moon doth with delight In response to Morrissey’s question, ‘Has the world changed or have I changed?’ we feel confident answering, in the case of Wordsworth, with a resounding ‘You have’. Which among us does not, from time to time, visit a place, or smell a smell, or revisit a book or hear a song, which transports us vividly back to our childhood and youth, and allows us to recollect (if only for a short while) how we felt when we were young?

But it is not merely elegiac: indeed, it becomes celebratory as Wordsworth comes to realise that the advancing years can still provide opportunities to catch some glimmers of that first encounter with nature as a child.

century in. ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ is one of William Wordsworth’s best-known and best-loved poems. And that imperial palace whence he came. But yet I know, where’er I go, Forebode not any severing of our loves! Its power is ‘perpetual benediction’: an eternal blessing, religious in its power.

The sunshine is a glorious birth; The paradox of the line ‘The Child is father of the Man’ is that our childhoods shape our adulthoods: the inversion of the usual idea of things (that an adult man is a father to his child) neatly embodies Romanticism’s desire to shake up the way we view ourselves, and to (an idea expressed before Romanticism, notably in Henry Vaughan’s fine poem ‘The Retreat’; but it was Wordsworth and the Romantics who made the idea a central part of their worldview). The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep;

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mannerism.

lengthy, autobiographical “poem to Coleridge” as “The Prelude” Nevertheless the author feels that a When we are children, we are innocent, we like to play, we haven’t got problems; but when we are adult, we Now he’s an adult, Wordsworth has lost sight of the wonder he used to be able to detect in the world of nature. Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream.

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