Monday, April 28, 2008
Ode
This poem had allot of imagery which helps you follow the speakers train of thought. It is filled with appreciation and beauty of nature. I think the poem is about how young children see the world and nature in a different way than adults. You can see if well in the first three stanzas of the poem. As they grow up, people forget to appreciate the natural beauty in the world. Children seem to have a perspective that fills nature with glory, which reappears through out the poem. The speaker explains that there was a time when the world seemed "The glory and the freshness of a dream." But "The things which I have seen I now can see no more." The speaker still retains loves of nature as an adult, but it is not the same as it once was; "there hath passed away a glory from the earth." Then the speaker has a laps in his happiness, which is not the last, but he decides that he would be doing the world wrong to be stricken with grief on such a day. The earth is happy and this makes him happy. Children are another comforting thought to the speaker.
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I thought this contrast between the playful and the stark seemed to come to a head in stanza seven "And unto this he frames his song; /Then will he fit his tongue /To dialogues of business, love and strife;" The frame this man is conforming to and constrained by is that of society. Yet through poetry Wordsworth is able to intertwine song and dialogue and allow the song-like voice of childish understanding to come through. It is interesting that he does not address where his poetry fits in as it rests between the world of common speech and song.
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