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William Wordsworth Selected Poems: Ode: Intimations of Immortality. Short Questions with Answers S.Q: 1-10
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English Literature Romantic Poetry
William Wordsworth Selected Poems: Ode: Intimations of Immortality. Short Questions with Answers S.Q: 1-10
Q.1. How were the common place objects of Nature apparelled when Wordsworth was just child?
Ans. William Wordsworth is a great poet of Nature. Nature is the chief theme of his poetry. In Immortality Ode Nature appears to him with divine glory when he was a child. He used to enjoy the various objects of Nature through senses in his childhood. In the days of his childhood the most common place objects of Nature such as the meadow, grove, stream etc appeared to him having a heavenly light. Every object of Nature was in heavenly apparel of light or radiance.In his childhood it seemed to Wordsworth that Nature had put on the apparel (or a garment) of heavenly light. It was an ideal beauty with which every object of Nature seemed to be dressed. In every object of Nature he found the glory and freshness of a dream. Thus every object of Nature appeared to him, in his childhood to be invested with a life-like vividness and dream-like beauty. The glory of Nature had the unsubstantial quality of a dream.
Q.2. How are the objects of Nature apparelled in heavenly light counterbalanced by the heavenly bodies?
Ans. Wordsworth was a great poet of Nature. In Immortality Ode Nature appears to him with divine glory when he was a child. In the days of his childhood, the most common place objects of Nature such as the meadow, grove, stream etc. appeared to him apparelled in the garment of heavenly light. The earth which apparelled in the garment of heavenly light, is counterbalanced by the celestial bodies like the sun, the moon and stars and the rainbow. When Wordsworth is a grown up man he can see the picture of the formation of the rainbow and quick fading away in the sky. Stars at night make the rivers, the lakes and the streams beautiful and fascinating. The moon looks beautiful with all her divine glory shining in the cloudless sky. She looks round her with joy to see the visionary gleam. But she sheds the gleam herself, lights up the sky and thus creates her world. Even the sunshine participates in the glory. The sunshine or the rising sun signifies the birth of the day. It is the childhood of the sun's course. Like the moon, the sun joyfully creates its world. Thus the objects of Nature apparelled in heavenly light are counterbalanced by the heavenly bodies.
Q.3. Why does Wordsworth feel sad?
Ans. In Immortality Ode, Wordsworth feels sad because of his loss of visionary gleam. The poet says that all familiar objects of Nature seemed to be invested with heavenly glory in his childhood. He recollects that during the days of his childhood every commonplace objects of Nature like meadow, grove, stream etc. appeared to him dressed in the garment of heavenly light. This heavenly light had the glory, freshness and vividness of a dream. But when the poet becomes a grown up man, he can no more see the heavenly glory in the commonplace objects of Nature. When the poet is a grown up man, he sees the heavenly bodies such as the sun, the moon, the rainbow and stars appear and pass away as before. But the heavenly glory that he once saw in them in his childhood has now completely departed from them. He has now attained maturity and in the process has suffered a great loss in his inability to perceive the divine glory which he could see in his childhood. So the poet feels sad.
Q.4. What dispels his sadness?
Ans. The poet feels sad because of his loss of visionary gleam which he used to see in his childhood. But certain things help him to dispel his sadness. When he becomes a grown up man, he sees birds to sing a song of deep pleasure. He also sees the young lambs running with jumping movements as if they were jumping to the sound of the tabor, and the shepherd boy expressing his joy by shouting. The waterfalls are making a loud sonorous sound like the sound of a trumpet. All the creatures on the land and in the sea are in happy mood engaged themselves in merry-making. All the wild creatures are in the spirit of May. All the objects of earth appear very lovely with new flowers and vegetation in the month of May. So the poet thinks that while everything is in happy mood, it would be unfortunate for him, if he were sad. Hence he dispels his sadness and throws himself into the general spirit of himself around him.
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