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LVisentin - The Ode: Intimations of Immortality
by LVisentin - (2010-11-12)
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The ode is the most complex form of poetry between those analyzed until now, both in the layout and in content.

 In the ode the poet poses existential problems because he remember when he was very very young and he says that in his childhood the relationship between himself and Nature was more vivid and direct.

 

Wordsworth says also that when a person grows up diminishes the emotional memory of God, that is more strong in childhood, but the poet is still a child because he can perceive the Nature with sensibility than thre other men.

In the poem the poet uses a synecdoche because he refers to some lements of Nature to refer to all of it.

 

Wordsworth was influenced by Neoplatonism, that was a philosophy inspired by was Plato.

 

In the text there are asome alliteration: for example there are a lot repetition of "h" sound, in the line "From God , who is our home", that suggest the idea of sigh when the reader reads this part of the poem.

 

There are also some alliterations of "s" sound, for example "The soul that rises with us" the poet do this maybe to create an effect of silence of souft sounds according to the significance of the ode.

 

In addition there are also some alliterations with "t" sounds, for example : "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting", that suggest the idea of reflection and meditation that is present throughout the ode.