Wordworth's Ode Analysis
William Wordworth’s Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 1. (beginning) Nature
Explanation: It talks about the mountains, fields, land, and sea. It is getting you to look at nature more thoroughly.
Quote: “The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep, No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng. The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea. Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May, Doth every beast keep holiday-“
2. (middle) Idealism
Explanation: The little boy seems to be pretending to be at a wedding or funeral and being grown up.
Quote: “Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years’ darling of a pigmy size! See, where ‘mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother’s kisses, With light upon him from his father’s eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human like, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song:”
3. (end) Imagination
Explanation: I included the whole last stanza on this one for this explanation for it to make better sense. In this stanza he is remembering back to his life as a child and how children have that sense of immortality. The stanza shows the imagination of the immortality of a childlike mind, yet the mortality of the realization of the adulthood. Yet because of this, he can love nature even more and see more in nature itself.
Quote: “And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; I only have relinquish’d one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway; I love brooks which down their channels fret Even more than when I tripp’d lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The
Explanation: It talks about the mountains, fields, land, and sea. It is getting you to look at nature more thoroughly.
Quote: “The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep, No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng. The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea. Give themselves up to jollity, And with the heart of May, Doth every beast keep holiday-“
2. (middle) Idealism
Explanation: The little boy seems to be pretending to be at a wedding or funeral and being grown up.
Quote: “Behold the Child among his new-born blisses, A six years’ darling of a pigmy size! See, where ‘mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother’s kisses, With light upon him from his father’s eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human like, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art; A wedding or a festival, A mourning or a funeral; And this hath now his heart, And unto this he frames his song:”
3. (end) Imagination
Explanation: I included the whole last stanza on this one for this explanation for it to make better sense. In this stanza he is remembering back to his life as a child and how children have that sense of immortality. The stanza shows the imagination of the immortality of a childlike mind, yet the mortality of the realization of the adulthood. Yet because of this, he can love nature even more and see more in nature itself.
Quote: “And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forebode not any severing of our loves! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might; I only have relinquish’d one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway; I love brooks which down their channels fret Even more than when I tripp’d lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; The