Intimations of immortality

• What is an ode?

  a lyric poem, melodious and beautiful with elaborate stanza structure, formality and loft sentiment and thought
• What was the poem prefaced by?

  paulo majora canamus (let us sing a little of greater things)
• Fullest expression of wordsworths view of the link between childhood and heaven
• When was it completed?

  1804
• Where did the poem originally end?

  where is it now, the glory and the dream?
• What do the first four stanzas discuss?

  death and the loss of youth and innocence
• What do the second four stanzas discuss?

  how age causes man to loose sight of the divine
• What do the final three stanzas discuss?

  expresses hope that the memory of the divine lets us sympathise with fellow man
• What does the poem rely on?

  the idea of pre-existance
• What is the idea of pre-existance?

  the soul existed before the body (this connects children with the ability to see the divine of nature)