Ode: intimations of immortality Summary and Analysis l Critical Analysis of Ode Intimations of Immortality

In the first line, the speaker accurately states that there was a time when everything of nature seemed to him to be "wrapped up in heavenly light," and that the day had gone. "What I saw is no longer visible to me." According to the second stanza, the rainbow is still visible, and the rose is gorgeous; the moon happily glances across the sky, and every man is bathed in glorious light and sunlight. The speaker, on the other hand, thinks that grandeur has been extinguished from the nation.

Despite the fact that he had been enriched by the sounds of the waterfalls surrounding him, the wildlife, and the roaring mountains, the speaker in the third line states that he had been improved by the birds of spring singing and seeing the young lambs sailing and playing. He assures that his sorrow will no longer spoil the pleasure of the season, and the whole globe is delighted with his words. A teenage shepherd is encouraged to scream and play by him. 

In his fourth Stanza, he speaks about the animals of nature, and he adds that his heart joins in the celebration of their flourishing existence. He thinks it would be terrible to be depressed on a lovely May morning when the youngsters are running about and kicking the flowers in the center. His thoughts turn to "all that has gone away" as he stares at a tree and a meadow he comes upon. "Where has it gone now, grandeur and dream?" he inquires of the "aesthetic brilliance."

Stanza 5 says that human existence is nothing more than "sleeping and forgetfulness" - that human beings spend their time in a more pure and beautiful world before arriving on earth. "Heaven," he adds, "lives on us from the time we are born!" Although we still remember this location from our youth, its pleasure has enriched our understanding of the world — but in the way that a child sees the wonder of childhood, early adulthood, and humanity. In the sixth verse, the speaker recounts the joys of the earth in order to make the listener forget the grandeur from which he has come.

In the seventh stanza, the speaker stares at a six-year-old child and muses on life, and his mother and father are filled with love for him as a result of this. He watches the child play with an adult copy, "a small plan or charts," mimic "a marriage or a celebration," or imitate "a sorrow or death," and then he writes about it. As far as the speaker is concerned, all human lives are mimicked in the same manner. As a great prophet of a missed truth, the speaker addresses the kid in the eighth stanza, asking him directly why he has raced away from the beauty of his roots and into earthly, traditional adult life when the child has access to such a wealth of knowledge.

In the ninth stanza, the speaker expresses his delight at the prospect of having ongoing access to his childhood memories of instinct, innocence, and discovery in a world that is no longer there. In the tenth stanza, he encourages the birds to sing as a result of his pleasure, and he asks all of nature to join in on "The Joy of May." He believes that despite the loss of some natural beauty and experience, he can rely on "primal compassion," "recollection," and the knowledge that years may build a crazy consciousness — "a philosophical mind" — to sustain him. In the last stanza, the speaker claims that his intellect, which is formed from a knowledge of death, as opposed to the child's feeling of immortality, enables him to appreciate nature and natural beauty even more since every item of nature has the ability to provoke thought in him. Moreover, "things frequently profound for tears may rise in the smallest flower that stops the wind," says he, "in the simplest flower that slows the wind."

Critical Analysis of Ode Intimations of Immortality 

It is a lengthy and extremely complex poem that focuses on the relationship between Wordsworth and nature and his fight for understanding the importance of the natural world. The poetry is an elegy, expressing the sorrow that something is gone. As a young person, Wordsworth was pleased to take away a lot of the beauty of nature and to deprive him of the passionate emotion he showed as an adult.

Wordsworth thinks that the source of loss has all too much to do with earthly things, as is seen in "The universe is too much for us." We spend a lot of time getting older, trying to find out how to gather money while being estranged from nature at the same time. Poetry is marked by an odd feeling of duality. While the environment is beautiful, serene, and quiet, the speaker feels sad and angry over what he (and mankind) lost. Because Wordsworth considers nature to be a kind of religion, he admits that it is evil to be sad with nature and wants to escape his sadness to the point where he can.

Wordsworth explores the transitional condition of childhood throughout the poem, but particularly in the 7th stanza. The intimate connection between a kid and nature is substituted by a stupid play in which he pretends to be an adult before he is actually mature. Wordsworth instead wants the kid to cling to nature's beauty which only a person may appreciate in life.

Wordsworth may integrate feelings and issues he has examined throughout the 9th, 10th, and 11th stanzas and finish the work. While he has lost his comprehension of the beauty of nature, he knows he can still recall once when he thinks back. His only hope for life is to recall the beauty of nature that he finally chooses to suffice. Everything we have can never be entirely taken from us, no matter how little time we have, since it will always be in our thoughts.