Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood

The extract is taken from the Wordsworth's ode called Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood.
The ode is a lyrical form of poetry which uses dignified and complex language charged with metaphor and also the lay-out looks complex.
In the Ode Wordsworth sums up his philosophy of childhood: men have origin from God and when a baby born he brings with him the pleasure memory of the close relationship with God. So the young baby can perceive Nature better than the others, but the emotional memory of God weakens as he grows up. His thesis attests the influence of Plato that Wordsworth felt and the way people thought in the nineteenth century.
According to Wordsworth, the poet is a man who is able to keep the close relationship with God that he felt when he was a child. This gives him the possibility to perceive beauty in Nature.
In the Ode the speaking voice is remembering a past moment in his life when, being in a meadow, in a grove or in a stream, he could feel the spontaneous and immediate relation with Nature.
The poet is aware that he does not react as he used to do when he was a child and he regrets about his lost.