A_Word_on_Wordsworth

A Word on Wordsworth Contrary to what many critics state, Wordsworth does capture the true essence of childhood. While reading “Tintern Abbey” and “Ode: Intimations of Immorality”, the reader is instantly aware that the point of view is from an adult who dreams of returning to the age when life had no worries. In the beginning lines of his “Ode: Intimations of Immorality” Wordsworth paints a picture which carries much similarity to Genesis’s “Garden of Eden”. For example, throughout lines 1-2, Wordsworth talks of a serene setting with a “meadow, grove, and stream”. Then, he begins to further glorify his setting by mentioning that according to him it “appareled in celestial light”. In many ways this is childhood. Most children have no worries and their state of mind is not troubled or disturbed in any way, much like Wordsworth’s setting. Moreover, the way they see the world is not tarnished, as opposed to when they mature and the evils of the world begin to surface. wordsworth, childhood, life, adult, setting, lines, worries, world, way, tintern, time, state, reader, ode, much, maturity, intimations, immorality, child, abbey, youth, yearning, writes, wordsworth’s, whose, while, ways, was—before, view, upon, truly, true, troublesome, troubled, throughout, through, though, tarnished, talks, surface, stream, speaks, similarity, showing, should, serene, say, returning, return, reading