Ode: Intimations of Immortality

Wordsworth's Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood is a poem that declares Wordsworth's philosophy on the immortality of the human soul. It is heavily influenced by the Platonic idea of pre-existence, which means that the soul dwelled in a alternate state prior to its present state occupying our body and it will, after our death, return to that alternate state. For obvious reasons, this philosophy is one of the major reasons that Plato was so popular among the Church fathers.