Intimations of Immortality

noun

1. ( Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood ), a poem (1807) by Wordsworth.

Example Sentences

Forget intimations of immortality; Mr. Black’s poetry cracked wise about things like horse manure, the evils of vegetarianism and the advantages of artificial preservatives:

From New York Times

At one point, Jake references Wordsworth’s poem “Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Childhood,” an exploration of aging and the faded glories of youth.

From Los Angeles Times

For instance, in his “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,” he says, “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting.”

From Washington Post

“Splendor” takes its title from William Wordsworth’s poem “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood.”

From Los Angeles Times

Other poets describe something similar: in Wordsworth’s “Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” he recalls a time “when meadow, grove, and stream, / The earth, and every common sight, / To me did seem / Apparelled in celestial light, / The glory and the freshness of a dream.”

From The Guardian