The author of Ode: Intimidations of Immortality William Wordsworth’s conversation with his sister had recalled the emotional experience in his childhood. Wordsworth began to question why, as a child, he once has the ability to witness the divinity of nature but as an adult that was disappearing. The speaker of the poem is an older man who is thinking back about his childhood’s glory and connection to the heaven. With frequent shift of rhyme scheme in the poem, Wordsworth makes this poem songlike and using metaphors and personification to emphasize his emotional ideas of pre-existence and to express the fact that time has stripped away much of nature’s glory, depriving him of his connection to nature as a child.
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The concept of pre-existence is the idea that souls live before physical human bodies come to exist on this world. It explains how humans start in an ideal world that slowly becomes a shadowy life. In the fifth stanza, Wordsworth writes, “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting… No entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come… From God, who is our home” (ln. 19-26). Wordsworth expresses his belief that all humans used to live in heaven in our pre-existence. And when we first come to Earth, we still have some memories about heaven. Nevertheless, the memories fade once we grow up and enter adulthood. Exposure to the material world in adulthood dims one’s memories of heaven from the beginning of life. While Wordsworth is stating his emotional beliefs, he is also raising a question about the human pre-existence for readers to think along with the …show more content…
An example of metaphor is in the fifth stanza, it says, “The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star” (l. 20). This line compares the soul to a guiding star. It means that the soul from our pre-existence is the thing that can lead us to see the nature’s glory. It is easy to spot the work “Soul” because the author purposely capitalized it to show its importance and attract readers’ attentions. There are other key words in the stanza that the author has capitalized, such as “the Youth” (l. 32). After marking them all, the readers are able to quickly comprehend the main theme that the author is trying to convey. Another metaphor and symbol in the fifth stanza is that “Shades of the prison-house begin to close” (l. 28). The “shades of the prison-house” is referring to the earth. The speaker infers that the earth is the prison that keeps us away from the heaven. After all, baby or boy in this poem is the symbol of the connection to heaven, or the body with pure spirit. And baby or children has the ability to see nature’s glory. The nature is another symbol of God’s love and heaven. Finally, personification is also used in the poem to create the liveliness and lighthearted mood while discussing a sad, despairing matter to the author. In the second stanza, it says, “The Moon doth with delight
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The concept of pre-existence is the idea that souls live before physical human bodies come to exist on this world. It explains how humans start in an ideal world that slowly becomes a shadowy life. In the fifth stanza, Wordsworth writes, “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting… No entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come… From God, who is our home” (ln. 19-26). Wordsworth expresses his belief that all humans used to live in heaven in our pre-existence. And when we first come to Earth, we still have some memories about heaven. Nevertheless, the memories fade once we grow up and enter adulthood. Exposure to the material world in adulthood dims one’s memories of heaven from the beginning of life. While Wordsworth is stating his emotional beliefs, he is also raising a question about the human pre-existence for readers to think along with the …show more content…
An example of metaphor is in the fifth stanza, it says, “The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star” (l. 20). This line compares the soul to a guiding star. It means that the soul from our pre-existence is the thing that can lead us to see the nature’s glory. It is easy to spot the work “Soul” because the author purposely capitalized it to show its importance and attract readers’ attentions. There are other key words in the stanza that the author has capitalized, such as “the Youth” (l. 32). After marking them all, the readers are able to quickly comprehend the main theme that the author is trying to convey. Another metaphor and symbol in the fifth stanza is that “Shades of the prison-house begin to close” (l. 28). The “shades of the prison-house” is referring to the earth. The speaker infers that the earth is the prison that keeps us away from the heaven. After all, baby or boy in this poem is the symbol of the connection to heaven, or the body with pure spirit. And baby or children has the ability to see nature’s glory. The nature is another symbol of God’s love and heaven. Finally, personification is also used in the poem to create the liveliness and lighthearted mood while discussing a sad, despairing matter to the author. In the second stanza, it says, “The Moon doth with delight