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The poem was reprinted under its full title "Ode: Intimation of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" for Wordsworth's collection Poems (1815). The reprinted version also contained an epigraph that, according to Henry Crabb Robinson, was added at Crabb's suggestion. [10] The epigraph was from "My Heart Leaps Up". [13]
Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind... Two years before writing the screenplay for the film, Inge wrote Glory in the Flower (1953), a stage play whose title comes from the same line of the Wordsworth poem. The play relates the story of two middle-aged, former lovers ...
Ode: Intimations of Immortality, poem by William Wordsworth composed 1802–1804.A stanza from the poem is read by Natalie Wood's character in the 1961 movie. "Though nothing can bring back the hour / Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; / We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind".
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS In Eastern lands they talk in flow'rs And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowr's, On its leaves a mystic language bears. The rose is a sign of joy and love, Young blushing love in its earliest dawn, And the mildness that suits the gentle dove,
The poem is not a conventional part of the Classical genre of Theocritan elegy, because it does not mourn an individual. The use of "elegy" is related to the poem relying on the concept of lacrimae rerum, or disquiet regarding the human condition. The poem lacks many standard features of the elegy: an invocation, mourners, flowers, and shepherds.
John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...
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The poem uses the image of a flowering plant - specifically that of a chasmophyte rooted in the wall of the wishing well - as a source of inspiration for mystical/metaphysical speculation [1] and is one of multiple poems where Tennyson touches upon the topic of the relationships between God, nature, and human life.