Intimations of Immortality

Episode 8 of the Steve's English podcast, hosted by Steve Hindmarsh, titled "Intimations of Immortality " was published on June 19, 2024 and runs 14 minutes.

June 19, 2024 ·14m · Steve's English

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William Wordsworth first published "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" in his 1807 collection Poems, in Two Volumes. Often considered one of Wordsworth's greatest masterpieces, this poem explores some of the themes that haunted Wordsworth across his whole career: childhood, memory, nature, and the human soul. The poem's speaker remembers that, when he was a child, he saw the whole world shining with heavenly beauty, and wonders where that beauty has gone now he's an adult. While he can never get that kind of vision back, he concludes, he can still build his faith upon his memories of it; the way the world looks to children, he argues, is a hint that every human soul comes from heaven, and will return there one day. Music by Oleggio Kyrylkoww from Pixabay Full transcript : https://lilschool.fr/homepage/steves-english-podcast/ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/steves-english/subscribe Follow, share, comment, like !

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William Wordsworth first published "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" in his 1807 collection Poems, in Two Volumes. Often considered one of Wordsworth's greatest masterpieces, this poem explores some of the themes that haunted Wordsworth across his whole career: childhood, memory, nature, and the human soul.

The poem's speaker remembers that, when he was a child, he saw the whole world shining with heavenly beauty, and wonders where that beauty has gone now he's an adult.

While he can never get that kind of vision back, he concludes, he can still build his faith upon his memories of it; the way the world looks to children, he argues, is a hint that every human soul comes from heaven, and will return there one day.

Music by Oleggio Kyrylkoww from Pixabay

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