FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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Lambs playing and birds singing
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Children playing
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The nearby waterfalls and mountains
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Himself
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Detailed explanation-1: -Summary. ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ by William Wordsworth speaks about growing up and losing one’s connection to nature. The poem begins with the speaker mourning the loss of his youth and the deeper connection he used to have to the natural world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Memory and Sense of Loss Wordsworth is concerned with the theme of memory and the passing of time in the “Immortality Ode.” In the first stanza the speaker is reminiscing on the times of old when everything seemed to be “appareled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream.” (1:4-5).
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem, whose full title is “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, ” makes explicit Wordsworth’s belief that life on earth is a dim shadow of an earlier, purer existence, dimly recalled in childhood and then forgotten in the process of growing up.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 11-stanza poem is written in the style of the irregular Pindaric ode.