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Ode Intimations of Immortality

Wordsworth’s Ode: Intimations of Immortality begins with a recognition that something has been lost. The world has not changed, but the way it once shone has. What was immediate and radiant in youth no longer answers in the same way. The poem does not rush to comfort. It holds the loss in view, then sets human feeling against it - memory, sympathy, the shared life of others - not as a cure, but as a refusal to let meaning drain away. At its centre, the ode turns toward explanation. Childhood is imagined as a state of nearness to a deeper source; maturity as a necessary forgetting. The loss is not accidental. It is the cost of becoming fully human. What follows is not nostalgia. The poem accepts that what is gone will not return. In its place comes something quieter: endurance, moral depth, an awareness shaped by time and suffering rather than vision alone. The ode ends without triumph. Joy remains, but it is altered. Nature no longer overwhelms; it accompanies. What was once brightness becomes gravity. What was once given freely is now earned.