Narrative strategies in Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth

Abstract

The paper analyzes the narrator’s intentions and strategies in Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth. It has been noted that the poem offers a range of profound ideas; it arouses complex questions, and suggests interesting solutions, which render the reading an exciting experience indeed. While examining Wordsworth’s Ode, the authors observed a resemblance to the Buddhism conception. It has been concluded that Wordsworth’s ode features how spiritual unrest and suffering offer the opportunity for growth, gradual development and philosophical understanding of nature and the outer world.