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Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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William Wordsworth
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How does Wordsworth depict childhood in “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”?
Explain the quotation: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, ..."
Wordsworth calls the Child, "Might Prophet, Seer Blest!" What is Wordsworth's view of the child's closeness to nature and the imagination?
Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Where is it now,the glory and the dream? Discuss what do you think on reading these lines with reference to ''Ode: Intimations of Immortality'' by Wordsworth
What are the similarities and differences in Wordsworth's poems, "Ode: Intimation of Immortality" and "Tintern Abbey"?
Analyze the seventh stanza of Ode on Intimations of Immortality. Explain words by words and line by line.
How does the speaker change between the first and last stanza? (Explain using specific details from the poem.)
Explain this extract "Then sing, ye Birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And let the young Lambs bound As to the tabor's sound!" who says? to whom? when? where? why? what it refers to? what is it significance? give all the related informations. answer should be at least 300 words.
Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" andWordsworth's “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” are pessimistic laments for the loss of imaginative powers. Examine the relationship between the two poems.
How is childhood central to Wordsworth's conception of self in this poem, and how is that self affected by the aging process?
In first two stanzas of “Ode: On Intimations of Immortality,” what is the main conflict the speaker faces?
"The Child is father of the Man." How is childhood central to Wordsworth’s conception of the self and how is that self affected by the aging process? "My Heart Leaps Up" "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
What makes "Ode" romantic?
What is the meaning of childhood, pre-existence, and memory in William Wordsworth's poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"?
Can you explain the epode of "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"?
In "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," Wordsworth brings up a concept that in many ways questions John Locke’s concept of tabula rasa. What is this concept?
What does Wordsworth refer to as "life's star"?
How does "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" reveal Wordsworth's mysticism and beliefs?
In later stanzas of William Wordsworth's “Ode: On Intimations of Immortality,” how does nature wholly or partially resolve the conflict between earthly and heavenly existence?
I am preparing for Lecturers Entrance Examination in India. I want examples of figures of speech in Wordsworth's "Ode on Intimations of Immortality".
Please explain the fifth stanza in Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality."
Why does the speaker decide not to grieve any more for his loss of divinity in "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"?
In the “Intimations Ode,” Wordsworth attempts to reconcile the loss of the “visionary gleam” of childhood with the growth of the “philosophic mind” of adulthood. Are there ways in which this theme helps readers understand other poems we have read from Wordsworth? Ultimately is this described reconciliation convincing and consistent as Wordsworth presents it?
How does Wordsworth's Intimations explore the question of human suffering and/or the speaker's experience of suffering?