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IBignolin - The Ode, Connotation
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The rhyme in Intimations of Immortality is not regular: in lines 1-5, 6-9, 19-22 and 23-28 the rhyme is alternate while in 14-17 is kissed. The rhyme scheme and consequently the rhythm is different in order to separate each part and distinguish them from the others.
The alliteration in line 11 contributes, with the repetition of the sound "s", to create the imagine of the slow rise of human soul that appear before our birth. The repetition of the sound "t" in lines 14-15 helps to link the two lines, when the poet reminds us we came in this life neither forgetful nor naked from the experience we lived in God's kingdom. The alliteration in lines 16-17 is very strong, as the repeated sound "o" , a closed vowel, gives to the reader the solemn sensation of bringing with us God's glory. Lastly, in line 21 the meaning of the word "flows", the sense of pouring light is well given by the repeated sound "w".
In the ode the syntax of the sentences is complex and calculated to give to some particular words a chief position and accordingly more importance in the text. In line 3 and in line 6 the first words are positioned at the beginning of the line because they have a key role in their sentence; also in line 24 the world "must" comes before the others because of his function. Otherwise the words "no more" are located at the end of line 9 to better express the concept the poet wants to gives us, that is a grown boy will never ever remember feel his link with Nature as he once felt.
In addiction, another typical element of an ode is the use of demanding words in place of simple words, as the ode being a more complex form of poetry than the ballad and the sonnet needs a more fancier vocabulary. The word "behold" in place of "see" and the word "splendid" in place of "beautiful" give an example of this leaning.
The words that represent the main concepts of the ode are located in order to create a climatic effect: the sequence is "soul" (line 11), "God" (line 17), "infancy" (line 18), "Youth" (line 23), "Nature", (line 24) and "Man", (line 27). It represents the way everybody has to go through to get the maturity, a process that in Wordsworth's opinion brings us far from God and from the link we had with him and with his creatures before our birth.
According to Wordsworth our birth is like an awoke from a long sleep, when we don't remember a lot of what we dreamed: the metaphor of line 10 expresses this concept. The expression of line 11 where our soul is compared to a star thinks at the soul as the Sun that lights up our life and that seems to wake up with us every morning.
The metaphor of line 17 carries on the idea of the soul that comes with us from the birth to the death, that is from God to God, because as Wordsworth wrote He is our home: we all have to go back to him at the end of the life, that the poet in line 19 compares to a "prison-house" as it covers God's memory in men's mind.
The alliteration in line 11 contributes, with the repetition of the sound "s", to create the imagine of the slow rise of human soul that appear before our birth. The repetition of the sound "t" in lines 14-15 helps to link the two lines, when the poet reminds us we came in this life neither forgetful nor naked from the experience we lived in God's kingdom. The alliteration in lines 16-17 is very strong, as the repeated sound "o" , a closed vowel, gives to the reader the solemn sensation of bringing with us God's glory. Lastly, in line 21 the meaning of the word "flows", the sense of pouring light is well given by the repeated sound "w".
In the ode the syntax of the sentences is complex and calculated to give to some particular words a chief position and accordingly more importance in the text. In line 3 and in line 6 the first words are positioned at the beginning of the line because they have a key role in their sentence; also in line 24 the world "must" comes before the others because of his function. Otherwise the words "no more" are located at the end of line 9 to better express the concept the poet wants to gives us, that is a grown boy will never ever remember feel his link with Nature as he once felt.
In addiction, another typical element of an ode is the use of demanding words in place of simple words, as the ode being a more complex form of poetry than the ballad and the sonnet needs a more fancier vocabulary. The word "behold" in place of "see" and the word "splendid" in place of "beautiful" give an example of this leaning.
The words that represent the main concepts of the ode are located in order to create a climatic effect: the sequence is "soul" (line 11), "God" (line 17), "infancy" (line 18), "Youth" (line 23), "Nature", (line 24) and "Man", (line 27). It represents the way everybody has to go through to get the maturity, a process that in Wordsworth's opinion brings us far from God and from the link we had with him and with his creatures before our birth.
According to Wordsworth our birth is like an awoke from a long sleep, when we don't remember a lot of what we dreamed: the metaphor of line 10 expresses this concept. The expression of line 11 where our soul is compared to a star thinks at the soul as the Sun that lights up our life and that seems to wake up with us every morning.
The metaphor of line 17 carries on the idea of the soul that comes with us from the birth to the death, that is from God to God, because as Wordsworth wrote He is our home: we all have to go back to him at the end of the life, that the poet in line 19 compares to a "prison-house" as it covers God's memory in men's mind.