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A 4 page essay that analyzes "Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" by William Wordsworth, who uses a perspective that brings in the triad of the past, present and future as a means of understanding the fundamental reality of human existence. It is a fact of life that the joy of living diminishes as human beings leave the shelter of childhood and realize the trials and tribulations that come with the adult world. In this "ode," Wordsworth examines this phenomenon and mourns the passing of what he considers to be a child's understanding of a higher wisdom. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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future as a means of understanding the fundamental reality of human existence. It is a fact of life that the joy of living diminishes as human beings leave the shelter
of childhood and realize the trials and tribulations that come with the adult world. In this "ode," Wordsworth examines this phenomenon and mourns the passing of what he considers to
be a childs understanding of a higher wisdom. Wordsworth begins by alluding to his perspective in the past and how everything in nature and the world was seemed to
him to be "Apparelld in celestial light" (line 4). This is no longer true, as while he sees that a rainbow and a rose are still beautiful, and "The moon
doth with delight/Look round her..." (lines 10-13), there is still the feeling that "...there hath passd away a glory from the earth" (line 18). As this suggests, Wordsworth is
caught up in the past. The memory of the wonder and awe with which he greeted the world in childhood, and the realization that this feeling is gone, depresses him
and causes him grief. However, he begins to overcome this feeling in the third stanza by living more fully in the present moment. Listening to the sound of waterfalls,
he disavows his grief, which "does the season wrong" (line 26). It is spring, the "heart of May" (line 31), and Wordsworth will not tarnish the spirit of the season
by indulging his previous dark mood. He commands a shepherd-boy to "Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts (line 35). But while Wordsworth assumes the spirit of the
season, he cannot quite shake off his former train of thought. The beauty of "A single field" (line 53), or "The pansy at my feet" (line 55), speak to
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