Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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I am using some of Wordsworth’s poem, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” as the basis for my prayer on Sunday.
Reading it again brought me back to my English major years when I first encountered it in a class on the Romantics. It had an enormous impact on me, as it has had an enormous impact on millions of others who have read it, and I treasured many of its phrases and committed them to memory. I was not a religious young adult in any traditional sense of the word but this was a poem that articulated much of my personal theology at the time.
I hope you’ll grant yourself the joy of reading it in its entirety here.
When someone later in my educational process dismissed Wordsworth as sentimental and gooey, I delivered a passionate defense of his work. My first pilgrimage, in fact, was taken after I finished with my […]