IMMORTALITY ODE- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

IMMORTALITY ODE- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

·         What is the full title of the poem? “Ode; Intimations of immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”.

·         What has the speaker lost in “Ode; Intimations of Immortality”? Nature’s glory.

·         Wordsworth was known as a member of what group?  The Lakeland Poets.

·         How did Shelley call Wordsworth?  Moral eunuch.

·         Where was the poem composed at? Town-end.

·         When were the First four stanzas written? 1803.

·         When were the remaining stanzas written? 1806.

·         What is the basic element of this poem? Doctrine of Reminiscence.

·         What is the grief of the poet? He could not fine glory in nature.

·         When did he see the Divine Glory? Childhood.

·         Who feels a kind of vacuum? Poet.

·         Who are singing joyous songs? Birds.

·         Where does the poet hear echo from? Mountains.

·         What is the season of the poem? Spring.

·         The poet asks whom to shout? Shepherd Boy.

·         Which remind the poet of the loss? A tree or green plot.

·         Which repeats the loss? Pansies

·         What is the question of the poet? Where is the gleam of the inner vision?

·         Our birth is a Temporal forgetfulness.

·         Which guides us? Soul.

·         When can we have visions of Heavenly glory? Infancy.

·         Who is the highest priest of nature? Youth.

·         When does the Glory vanish completely? Manhood.

·         Which has a kind of maternal affection of a child? The Earth.

·         Which is the simple nurse? Earth

·         When describing a child Wordsworth has in mind Coleridge’s 6 year child Heartly Coleridge.

·         What is the child playing with? Toys.

·         Who is the best philosopher? Child.

·         The poem is based on platonic philosophy.

·         His belief of Prenatal existence was from Plato.

·         The Doctrine of gradual loss of celestial powers was from Henry Vaughan.

·         The ode is a poetic account of immortal nature of the human spirit.

·         Which is our life’s star? Soul.

·         Which is the home of the soul? Heaven.

·         The poem is written in imitation of Pindaric ode.

·         Mathew Arnold finds the poem writing in poetic truth.

·         The most famous line of the poem: “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting”.

·         Ninth Stanza is the longest at 38 lines.

·         The poem is elegiac in that it is about the regret of loss.

·         What is the concluding line of the poem? To me the meanest flower that blows can give. Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

·         When was wordsworth made the poet laureate of England? 1843.