There is a little part of all of us that is lost when we grew up and out of our innate innocence. As we grow older, we realize that something has been lost that we never even realized was there. "Ode (Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood)" by William Wordsworth displays Wordsworth's bitter contempt for having lost childhood, and eventual acceptance of his fate.
             Following suit with most romantic poets, Wordsworth uses two main ingredients in his works: the reader's imagination and memory. He attempts to stir the memory and titillate the imagination. He does this using the literary techniques such as imagery. In the earlier stanza's, he begins by showing positive natural spectacles. In stanza three, line nineteen he illustrates a bird singing joyfully. Nothing can make his happiness stray, not even the thoughts of grief that fill his head, they are taken away. However, each of these memory invoking stanza's contains some sort of remorseful line or lines. In line sixteen and seventeen he states that part of his glory, his childhood innocence has been lost.
             Midway through the poem, he begins to describe his disdain for his loss. The closing lines of stanza eight describe the weight the world casts upon a maturing human being. However, in stanza nine, and in all those after, he realizes that his memory of childhood and all that is still good with the world is the solution to this troublesome enigma. In the final lines of the poem he remarks "To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." Nature, in all its splendor has the ability to stir the imagination and memory. It helps him to appreciate that which is still good about his life.
             Wordsworth does a fine job of communicating language fruitfully yet clearly. Since he writes using the free verse form of an ode, all the syntax is coherent. He doesn't...