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Informal Essay on Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

Tingting Zhang

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Wordsworth,as the leader of the Lake Poets,whose unique viewpoint on children and nature is not only the core of the system of his thoughts and the core of his poetics,but also is the existence of a kind of spirit.In the poets' eyes,nature is the integration of divinity,rationality and humanity.While the purpose of his caring for nature is to save human beings.The child is the father of adults,The souls pre-exist man,these ideas are the core of his thoughts of returning to childhood,and the nature of these ideas contains the profound spiritual chase and value orientation,and shows the call,which is from those who are alienated by the society,for the purest and best spirit belonging to human beings.

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Wordsworth,as the leader of the Lake Poets,whose unique viewpoint on children and nature is not only the core of the system of his thoughts and the core of his poetics,but also is the existence of a kind of spirit.In the poets' eyes,nature is the integration of divinity,rationality and humanity.While the purpose of his caring for nature is to save human beings.The child is the father of adults,The souls pre-exist man,these ideas are the core of his thoughts of returning to childhood,and the nature of these ideas contains the profound spiritual chase and value orientation,and shows the call,which is from those who are alienated by the society,for the purest and best spirit belonging to human beings.

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Wordsworth,as the leader of the Lake Poets,whose unique viewpoint on children and nature is not only the core of the system of his thoughts and the core of his poetics,but also is the existence of a kind of spirit.In the poets' eyes,nature is the integration of divinity,rationality and humanity.While the purpose of his caring for nature is to save human beings.The child is the father of adults,The souls pre-exist man,these ideas are the core of his thoughts of returning to childhood,and the nature of these ideas contains the profound spiritual chase and value orientation,and shows the call,which is from those who are alienated by the society,for the purest and best spirit belonging to human beings.

Key concepts: Immortality, Divinity, Humanity, Rationality, Value (mathematics), Poetics, Ode, Philosophy

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