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A 3 page paper which examines William Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the title suggests, immortality and childhood. In this poem the reader sees the child transition to adult in many ways, and in the process seems to forget the connection with
God and religion. The following paper analyzes aspects of this poem as it relates to childhood. William Wordsworth and Childhood in Intimations of Immortality Wordsworth presents the image
of the what the student requesting this paper calls the "vision gleam." Wordsworth states, "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/ Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" (Wordsworth
IV 21-22). Prior to this he is speaking of what one can envision as heaven, a vision of existing with God in a splendorous reality. He then asks what happens,
and following these lines he illustrates what seems to be the act of birth: "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting" (Wordsworth V 1). . He indicates that
"But trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God, who is our home" (Wordsworth V 7-8). In essence he is saying that prior to birth and at birth, and
perhaps into infancy and the age of being a toddler, people have a connection to God and heaven, remembering that they came from such a place, happy and seemingly blissful
in many respects because they are so deeply connected, still, to that ethereal existence. Wordsworth then speaks of how "Shades of the prison-house begin to close/ Upon the growing
Boy" which illustrates how the world, parents, and the realities that exist in the world infiltrate the boy and his ethereal nature (Wordsworth V 10-11). As a child grows they
lose their innocence and their sense of wonderment. But Wordsworth also indicates that as these prison images begin to descend the child is still connected to that light, that ethereal
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