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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 111 Ode, Intimations of Immortality William Wordsworth
Description: Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth.The poem addresses death. Speaking of the poem, Wordsworth said,"But it was not so much from the source of animal vivacity that my difficulty came, as from a sense of the indomitableness of the spirit within me. I used to brood over the stories of Enoch and Elijah, and almost persuade myself that, whatever might become of others, I should be translated in something of the same way to heaven. With a feeling congenial to this, I was often unable to think...