Ode: Intimations of Immortality (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Wordsworth
- First Published: 1807
- Type of Work: Ode
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Ode
- Subjects: Children, Parents and children, Immortality, Nature, Dreams, Fathers, Youth, Mortality, Joy or sorrow, Seasons, Spring
The Poem
In “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” William Wordsworth writes in the complicated stanza forms and irregular rhythms that are typical of the ode form. The 205 lines are divided into eleven stanzas of varying lengths and rhyme schemes. In the title, Wordsworth attempts to summarize and simplify the rich philosophical content of the poem.
The poem begins with an epigraph taken from an earlier poem by Wordsworth: “The Child is father of the Man;/ And I could wish my days to be/ Bound each to each by natural piety.” In this section of “My Heart Leaps...
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