The seventh section of this work centers on a boy "six years' darling of a pigmy size," who is "shaped by himself with newly-learned art" and notes, "as if his whole vocation were endless imitation."
The seventh section of this work centers on a boy "six years' darling of a pigmy size," who is "shaped by himself with newly-learned art" and notes, "as if his whole vocation were endless imitation." This poem's final stanza remarks on the loveliness of "the innocent brightness of a new-born Day" and that "the meanest flowers" gives thoughts "too deep for tears." The fifth section of this work opens with the line, "our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting," and the author calls youth "radiance which was once so bright," in years featuring "the philosophic mind." This poem first appeared with an epigraph from Vergil's Fourth Eclogue, and many versions of this poem had the epigraph beginning "The Child is father of the Man" from an earlier poem by its author. This poem notes that "heaven lies about us in our infancy," and the poem opens with the realization that, "There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream" seemed "apparell'd in celestial light." Subtitled "From Recollections of Early Childhood," for 10 points, name this eleven part poem by William Wordsworth, an ode about memories and wisdom.
The seventh section of this work centers on a boy "six years' darling of a pigmy size," who is "shaped by himself with newly-learned art" and notes, "as if his whole vocation were endless imitation."
“Ode: {Intimations} of {Immortality} From Recollections of Early Childhood”