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A 3 page paper which examines immortality in the works of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and Percy Shelley. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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interest, and as such clearly made for many serious examinations of life on the part of many poets. The following paper briefly looks at 6 different works as they involve
immortality. The works examined are William Wordsworths The Prelude and Intimations of Immortality, Samuel Taylor Coleridges poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Effusion 35 which is often referred
to as The Eolian Harp, William Blakes Proverbs from Hell and Percy Shelleys Ode to the West Wind. Immortality: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake and Shelley
In William Wordsworths The Prelude one finds an examination of many different things, in many different formats, considering that it is a poem about his entire life
and a poem that took him a long time to write. One can see, however, that he may well think of immortality, and the understanding of immortality, as it involves
a connection with nature as well as an insight into the nature of things. This can be seen when he writes, "Dear Liberty! Yet what would it avail/ But for
a gift that consecrates the joy?/ For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven/ Was blowing on my body, felt within (Wordsworth [2] 1 31-34).He sees the power of
time and youth as one that is part of nature, something he has observed as well. In his work titled Intimations of
Immortality, in the very last stanza, Wordsworth indicates how, "The clouds that gather round the setting sun/ Do take a sober colouring from an eye/ That hath kept watch oer
mans mortality" (Wordsworth [1]). In this one can clearly see that Wordsworth was observing nature, and had learned that immortality was something that seemed natural, unnatural, and clearly something connected
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