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Poem ode to intimations by William Wordsworth

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Summary

‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’ by William Wordsworth speaks about growing up and losing one’s connection to nature.  

The poem begins with the speaker mourning the loss of his youth and the deeper connection he used to have to the natural world. He tries to touch the emotion of the past but is unable. There’s always something missing. The speaker reflects on what it means to age, and in the fifth stanza declares that we come from a world that is more heavenly than earth. It is with the memory of this place that we see the earth, at least at first. Eventually, we grow older, forget these experiences and are taken in by the earth itself.