INTIMATION FROM IMMORTALITY

CONNOTATIVE LEVEL      

The rhythm

The rhythm gives fluency to the extract and the musicality of the Ode affects the reader attention capturing his attention.

Alliterations contributes to the sonorous effect

Language

The language is more poetical and complex than everyday language because Wordsworth chooses the form of Ode. He does not speak about common life but he deals with philosophical questions so the text type and the issues that it deal with condition the lexical choices.

Climatic effect

The extract presents a climatic effect that comes from: soul, God, pain, youth, nature priest, man.

By using these words Wordswoth express the message of the Ode: the man loses the close contact with God as he grows old.

The climax express the growth and the removal from God.  

Rhetorical devices

Metaphors

• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting
• The soul...our life's Star
• God, who is our home >> the metaphor is used to underline that humanity derives from God
• Shades of a prison-house
• The Youth...still is Nature's priest

Metaphors emphasize the message of the Ode and contributes to create a response  in the reader's mind