The ode

The title Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood is to link, in my opinion, to Wordsworth’s  “philosophy of childhood” which coming from Plato’s philosophy influence. 

 The main idea of this ode comes from Plato’s philosophy and it says that child is very sensible to every aspect of Nature because every man burns by God and God is the essence of Nature. As man grows up his memory of God decrease and with him also the personal relationship with him decrease. 

The layout of this text is looks very complex. The ode is a difficult form of poetry very different from ballads or sonnets which presents a very refined poetic diction and particulars structure in layout and in syntax. In particular the language is changed with figure of speech and it presents a lots of symbolic or complex words and expressions. It is lyrical because it deals with feeling. 

The poem is express by a speaking voice in first person narrator that, in first lines, is remembering a past moment in his life when the poet was young. In that moment his relation with Nature was immediate, something that had the freshness and the spontaneity of a dream. Now this relation is changed (“there was a time”) and the poet is nostalgic, he distress an elegiac feeling. In this way to grow up means to forget the emotional response, more he grows and less these memories are energetic. the strong relationship between the poet and Nature was possible because of his young age and now he notices that this connection is going less and less ("it is not now as it hath been yore”). He understands that more a man grows the more he is distracted by other thing of his life and he becomes unable to perceive the beauty of Nature, Nature that is metaphor for God. 

At the end he show a possible level of breaking relation in which man lost completely the relation with God. Saying that, in my opinion, the poet wants to write a warning for all poets, to push they to nurse this relation because if they lose this ability they become unable to write poetry.