you cannot help thinking of- you must recall-the exact phrase, the very sentiment he wished. Milton’s purity is more eager. In the most exciting parts of Wordsworth-and these sonnets are not very exciting-you always feel, you never forget, that what you have before you is the excitement of a recluse. There is nothing of the stir of life; nothing of the brawl of the world.”(Tucker, 191)Walter Bagehot, 1864, “Wordsworth, Tennyson and Browning,” Works, ed. Morgan, vol. I, p218Bagehot thinks the Sonnets of Wordsworth as beautiful artwork, that is very exciting to read. Whether it’s the style or the content, it is very arousing to the reader. There's nothing that can compare with them, says Bagehot. Intimations of ImmortalityThe poem seems to take place in a beautiful valley full of meadows, groves, and streams. This is a perfect description of nature and how it is supposed to be. The main idea of this whole poem is that Wordsworth tries to find the true “essence of man” and his place in this world created by God. How man fits into nature is his whole purpose of writing this poem. The speaker is Wordsworth himself; he rises above his own mortality and uses the natural workings of time to find a deeper understanding of how he truly fits in the world. Wordsworth emphasizes on the innocence of early childhood, and deals with death in a very positive way. In this poem Wordsworth says that humans are just playing a role in God’s stage, and as if our whole existence is in imitation without true conscious thought. -This is an ode, “ode on Intimations of Immortality”Wordsworth likes to play with rhyming in this poem, it seems his rhyme scheme changes very often, from alternate rhyming to direct rhyming. The poet uses both consonance and assonance at the end of each sentence to give it rhyme with the previous sentences. Wordsworth seems to rarely use alliterations...
