Which Wordsworth poem is about immortality or contains Intimations of Immortality?

Which Wordsworth poem is about immortality or contains Intimations of Immortality?

• A. Ode: Intimations of Immortality
• B. The Nightingale
• C. Dejection: An Ode
• D. Kubla Khan

Answer: (A)

Immortality and the idea that glimpses of it come through childhood memory drive this poem by Wordsworth. In Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, the speaker recalls the brightness and clarity of early perception and notes that birth feels like a sleep and forgetfulness, hinting at a deeper continuity beyond ordinary life. The poem argues that the soul retains a memory of an eternal world, and although aging dulls that sense, the intimation of the immortal persists. The other poems don’t center on this exploration of memory and the eternal: The Nightingale leans toward consolation through nature, Dejection: An Ode focuses on sorrow and creative despair, and Kubla Khan is a dreamlike Coleridge piece not about immortality. So the best choice is Ode: Intimations of Immortality.

Immortality and the idea that glimpses of it come through childhood memory drive this poem by Wordsworth. In Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, the speaker recalls the brightness and clarity of early perception and notes that birth feels like a sleep and forgetfulness, hinting at a deeper continuity beyond ordinary life. The poem argues that the soul retains a memory of an eternal world, and although aging dulls that sense, the intimation of the immortal persists. The other poems don’t center on this exploration of memory and the eternal: The Nightingale leans toward consolation through nature, Dejection: An Ode focuses on sorrow and creative despair, and Kubla Khan is a dreamlike Coleridge piece not about immortality. So the best choice is Ode: Intimations of Immortality.