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Ode: Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood
By William Wordsworth
Narrated by Denis Daly
This poem consists of eleven stanzas of varying length, the first four of which were composed in 1802. These deal with the subject of death, a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled with in childhood. This section ends with two questions:
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
In 1804. Wordsworth composed a further seven stanzas which present his answer to these questions. His conclusion is:
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
The complete Ode was published in 1807, and a final revised version in 1815.
While some reviewers, notably Lord Byron and John Ruskin, dismissed the poem as being of little value, it is today regarded as one of Wordworth's greatest works.
voicesoftoday.net/odef2d7a7
Ode: Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood
By William Wordsworth
Narrated by Denis Daly
This poem consists of eleven stanzas of varying length, the first four of which were composed in 1802. These deal with the subject of death, a concept with which Wordsworth confesses to having struggled with in childhood. This section ends with two questions:
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?
In 1804. Wordsworth composed a further seven stanzas which present his answer to these questions. His conclusion is:
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
The complete Ode was published in 1807, and a final revised version in 1815.
While some reviewers, notably Lord Byron and John Ruskin, dismissed the poem as being of little value, it is today regarded as one of Wordworth's greatest works.
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