Ode: Intimations of Immortality

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lyric poem ode

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.

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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood 2
Intimations of Immortality 1
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality ⓘ
surface form: Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
author William Wordsworth ⓘ
compositionPeriodEnd 1804 ⓘ
compositionPeriodStart 1802 ⓘ
containsLine Hence in a season of calm weather ⓘ
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ⓘ
Shades of the prison-house begin to close ⓘ
The soul that rises with us, our life's Star ⓘ
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears ⓘ
To me the meanest flower that blows can give ⓘ
Trailing clouds of glory do we come ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom ⓘ
criticalReputation central work of English Romantic poetry ⓘ
one of Wordsworth's greatest poems ⓘ
exploresConcept partial recovery of visionary insight through memory ⓘ
spiritual intuition in childhood ⓘ
the divine in nature ⓘ
firstPublicationYear 1807 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn Poems, in Two Volumes ⓘ
form ode ⓘ
genre Romantic poetry ⓘ
hasTone elegiac ⓘ
meditative ⓘ
influencedBy Christian imagery ⓘ
Platonic philosophy ⓘ
Wordsworth's childhood in the Lake District ⓘ
language English ⓘ
literaryMovement Romanticism ⓘ
surface form: English Romanticism
meter irregular meter ⓘ
numberOfStanzas 11 ⓘ
openingLine There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream ⓘ
originalTitle Ode: Intimations of Immortality self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
partOf Wordsworth's major odes ⓘ
period Romantic era ⓘ
rhymeScheme irregular rhyme scheme ⓘ
setting idealized English countryside ⓘ
subjectMatter childhood ⓘ
Ode: Intimations of Immortality self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: intimations of immortality

loss of visionary experience ⓘ
memory ⓘ
nature ⓘ
theme pre-existence of the soul ⓘ
recollection as a source of spiritual insight ⓘ
the contrast between childhood and adulthood ⓘ
the fading of visionary glory with age ⓘ
the relationship between the human mind and nature ⓘ

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William Wordsworth → notableWork → Ode: Intimations of Immortality ⓘ
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this entity surface form: Intimations of Immortality
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