Ode to Immortality Poem by William Wordsworth short Questions

Ode to Immortality 

Poem by William Wordsworth

When Ode to Immortality was written?
It was published in 1807.

In how many parts Ode to Immortality is divided?
It was completed in two parts.

How many stanzas are in this poem?
It is consisted of eleven stanzas.

What is the subject of the poem?
The subject of the poem is childhood and the Nature.

What poet declares in this poem?
He declares the child as the focus of nature.

What does the poet wish to do from animals and birds?
The poet is much happy among the sceneries of the nature. He is happy with the May sunlight and wants the animals and birds to join him to enjoy these all pleasure of season.

What structure of the poem?
The poem is consisting of eleven stanzas of two hundred and four lines with variable rhyme schemes, in iambic lines with anything from two to five stressed syllables.

What is the theme of the poem?
The theme of the poem is that how nature affects man's growth in his childhood. It also guides him throughout his life. It plays the roll of parents.

How does the nature affect the poet?
The nature affects the poet with its abundant beautiful sceneries. He is happy when he sees the masterpiece of nature; the rainbow, the mountains and the dark caves.

Who according to poet will guide him?
Poet says,the childhood memories will guide him throughout his life.

What is the poet's response to the heavenly bodies?
The poet loves to look at the moon, the sky, stars light and sunshine since his childhood. Though he has grown, he still is happy to see them. He wants them
before him for ever.

Why the poet is happy to see animals and birds?
The poet is happy to hear the birds singing and flying up in the sky. He is delighted to see the little lamb playing in the green fields. He becomes child in their
company and wishes to join them in their activities.

Why does the poet like cave?
The poet likes caves to enjoy his echo. In his childhood, he used to speak loud and then hear his voice returning to him. It was really a matter of enjoyment for him.


Which other beauties of nature the poet mentions in this poem?
Beauties of nature the poet mentions in this poem are rainbow on the sky; wind with its gust, grazing sheep, flying and singing birds.

How, according to the poet, nature develops child's mind?
According to the poet, the nature develops child's mind by putting its natural scenes in it. A child, he says, grows in the lap of nature. It instructs her, guides her
and even grown her mind how to live; how to enjoy and how to behave with others.

How does the nature affect the poet?
The nature affects the poet with its abundant beautiful sceneries. He is happy when he sees the masterpiece of nature; the rainbow, the mountains and the dark caves.

What is the poet's response to the heavenly bodies?
The poet loves to look at the moon, the sky, stars light and sunshine since his childhood. Though he has grown, he still is happy to see them. He wants them before him for ever.

Why the poet is happy to see animals and birds?
The poet is happy to hear the birds singing and flying up in the sky. He is delighted to see the little lamb playing in the green fields. He becomes child in their company and wishes to join them in their activities.

Why does the poet like cave?
The poet likes caves to enjoy his echo. In Childhood, he used to speak loud and then hear his voice returning to him. It was really a matter of enjoyment for him.