Comparative study between the poems "Ode intimation of immortality" and "Tintern Abbey" by william Wordsworth
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The most obvious similarity between these two famous poems is that both focus principally on Nature as the poet's inspiration and as the one element in his life that has the power to keep him going and, to put it simply, to counteract his depression. We do not often think of Wordsworth as a man who suffered with severe emotional difficulties throughout his life, but there is evidence of this in much of his verse and in biographical accounts. He is forever looking back, trying to recapture the
Splendour in the grass, and glory in the flower
that he experienced in his childhood but are gone now. This specific sense of loss forms the core of the "Intimations of Immortality" Ode. In addition, Wordsworth connects his communion with nature to a mystical belief in pre-existence:
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar.