Ode: Immortality

• What is the summary of the Ode/ Immortality?

  He can’t see the things he used too, with every sunrise he is aware some light is leaving. While watching birds he had a mournful thought but regained his strength to please nature. He talks on his personal beliefs.m
• What are the themes in Ode/Immortality?


  Souls Immortality

  Childhood wonder

  Pain of growing up

  Consolations of memory

  Beauty/ divine in nature
• What is the form/structure in Ode/Immortality?

  Has 11 stanzas which all have varied rhyme schemes and meters.
• Who is the speaker in the Ode/Immortality?


  Wordsworth
• What is the setting in Ode/Immortality?


  The speaker can see leaping lambs, singing birds and laughing children and he sees nature has heavenly.
• What is the Context of the Ode/Immortality?


  Was drafted over many years - started in 1802 & finished in 1807.

  WW was slowly becoming a devout Christian.