Wordsworth, Immortality Ode

William Wordsworth's 'Ode on the Intimations of Immortality from the Recollections of Early Childhood' is an important poem for illustrating the spiritual appeal of Wordsworth's poetics. The 'Immortality Ode' associates the child's delight in the experience of the world with joy, to which he explicitly attributes a religious meaning.
The collapse of transcendence into the imminent, which Thomas Carlyle called 'natural supernaturalism', provides a sort of apologetic argument for the knowledge of God in nature. The fact that Wordsworth's emphasis is on the ultimate reality of this world, and not the eschatological 'new heavens and the new earth' makes him troubling from a Christian perspective, not least in eroding the legacy of human personhood of the Patristic era.
But the power of the analogy that Wordsworth draws cannot be denied.
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Yes it’s the Meno. Anamnesis. Also other places in Plato’s Dialogues. Just saying.