ANALYSİS OF "ODE: INTİMATİONS OF IMMORTALİTY FROM

RECOLLECTİONS OF EARLY CHİLDHOOD"

Romantic age began around the eighteenth century with the publication of Lyrical
Ballads. The romantic period was a period which is marked by the concepts of love,
returning to nature (pantheism), individuality, emotions and joy. The writers of this age
considerded poetry as the highest form of literature. In this period, such writers as William
Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Wordsworth was
essential. Wordsworth was one of the foremost writers of the Romantic period. His poem
"Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood” (Wordsworth,
1807)It is a poem written by William Wordsworth which published in 1804 in Poems, Two
Volumes. This poetry examines several of the issues that plagued Wordsworth during his
whole career: nature, memories, youth, and the soul.

The narrator of the poem recalls how, as a child, he observed the entire world
gleaming with wonderful delights and beauty, and being an adult, wonders where that
beauties has vanished. Although he will never have that type of experience again, he
believes he may build his faith on his remembrance of it; the way the world seems to kids,
he believes, is a sign that each human soul comes from heaven and will return
heaven again.

The speaker opens the first stanza of “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from
Recollections of Early Childhood”by pointing out to the his childhood times. He
remembers" in the past time" things were quite different. The "meadow, grove, and stream"
appeared "Apparelled" and "dressed/covered in celestial light" to him. The scenery had a
spiritually inspiring, even holy sense about it. He points out to the reader in the middle of
the stanza, not everything is as it should be. The world is not that wonderful. Things are no
longer the way they were before. He has attempted to search and find the very same
emotional sensations he experienced as a kid yet has been unsuccessful. What he used to
see is no longer visible to him.

The second stanza is similarly rather brief. It expresses the speaker's present point
of view on the world. The whole of nature's beauty really hasn't left him; he continues to
observe and enjoy it. Yet, as the final sentences reveal, something vital is lacking.
Wordsworth moves between trimeter and tetrameter in these lines. He mentions the
"Rainbow" and "Rose," both of which are alliterative, in addition to the "Moon" and
"Waters." Everything here is "lovely and wonderful," and he can feel the sun's brightness,
but it's not as it was.

In the first line of the third stanza, he restates the magnificence of the natural
environment but stops himself to talk about his "thinking of loss". He was taken down as
the "young lambs" ran through the pasture to the music of a "tabor," or drum. His condition
is mercifully brief although as he is healed by "A timely utterance". The writer did not go
further on this "utterance," just that it was soothing. That was most likely the voice of a
bird or another creature. In this line, the speaker also references "cataracts" or waterfalls.
They are noisy, personified due to highlight the disturbance caused by their waters. The
speaker's comments to the "blessèd creatures" of the earth are contained in the fourth verse.
In order to soothe or assure them, he claims he has "heard the call" they make to each other
and that the entire earth and heavens share in the delight they bring. He blames the
prospect of feeling sad on a day such as this in lines seven and eight. It's a "beautiful May
morning," with kids enjoying and playing in the meadows. Life is being created, providing
new delight to the world.

In the fifteenth line of the poem, repetition used to emphasize the speaker's efforts
to completely surrender to the pleasure he feels. He sees a "tree" as it seems metaphorically
to him. One in specifically piques my interest. the speaker stands next to a pasture he had
"looked upon" back in time. Each of these items cause him to think of "something that is
gone". They are personified, adding to the previously heavy personification. The universe
is always whispering to the poet's speaker. This unpleasant emotion comes not only
because of the tree and field, as well as the flower beside his feet. It also tells the same
story. "Where is the glory and the dream?" he wonders. Nothing is proper, notwithstanding
his delight or efforts at joy. Something is still missing.

The fifth stanza is likely the most well-known in the poem. "Our birth is but a sleep
and a forgetting," the speaker continues. He is implying that the spiritual world existed
before we were created "elsewhere," or "cometh from afar" The "elsewhere" is a superior
location, a more magnificent one. We carry "trailing clouds of glory" with us when "we" do
enter the womb and enter the world. Humans are created with this emotion from birth.

He continues, saying that becoming an adult is like joining a jail. The "Shades of
the prison-house begin to close" when one loses their childhood. The young person needs
to daily go from the east toward the west, symbolizing death. The beauty of "Heaven"
fades and vanishes in the "light of common day" as the distance increases. The speaker had
been lacking this "Heaven" for the first four stanzas. The narrator introduces a small kid in
the opening line of the seventh verse. This youngster, who is a just six years old kid and is
"of a pigmy size" in comparison to the rest of the world, is the subject of his adulation. The
dialogue that follows focuses on the child's bond with his family. His parents teach him
how to act, care for him, and teach him how to love. Using charts, the youngster simulates
what it would be like to become older. preparing "A wedding or a celebration," etc. They
have an impact on the boy's personality.

The narrator keeps talking about the youngster in the ninth verse. He approaches
him as if he were a visionary or "Philosopher," for want of a better term. The only people
who have access to "those truths" are this youngster and, by extension, people his age. The
speaker is trying to convince him that he may access the Heaven of his birth if he so
desired.

The narrator declares her intentions in the opening section of the ninth stanza,
which has thirty-nine lines and is the longest in the poem. He reflects on the past, the
things he has lost, and his plans for the future. In nature, his history is recalled, and he may
enjoy the notion that this remains to be the reality. He restates a lot of what he
mentioned earlier in this section of the verse. He takes joy in his memories of before. They
serve as both the "master-light of all our seeing" and the "fountain-light of all our day".
When we get older, what we recall from our youth guides us. The only thing that makes
our old age appear attractive is the remembrance of our adolescence.

He requests the birds to sing, repeating the request he made to the shepherd boy
earlier in the poem. Also, he recalls the picture of the lambs jumping and the rhythm of the
drum. The rather uniform rhyming distribution in these lines adds to the delight the speaker
expresses. The speaker is aware that he might find comfort in the past, in "primal
compassion". Nothing can be undone now that it's occurred. Memory of it will last forever.
The tenth stanza's last words, which use anaphora, assist the speaker's ideas to be clearly
depicted. He rejoices "With the calming notion" that religion endures after death, that time
brings "the philosophic mind," and that there will be a respite from the dark.

An appeal to the land is the first line of "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from
Recollections of Early Childhood" (Wordsworth, 1807) concludingverse. These sites have
a "might" to him, and he appreciates that. Compared to when he was younger, he
understands a lot more. As the six-year-old in the prior stanzas, he thought he was
indestructible when he was younger. Indeed, that is how he felt. It appeared as though he
could push through childhood and that maturity would be better and last forever.