 | Kurt Fosso - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...cycle of life and death. The Ode therefore gives thanks, not for childhood's "[d]elight and liberty," But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | William Dell - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 108 pages
...creed Of childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:— Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;...those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts before which... | |
 | Ross Greig Woodman - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 297 pages
...mysterious presence of this causeless source, which he describes as 'those obstinate questionings / Of sense and outward things, / Fallings from us, vanishings; / Blank misgivings of a Creature / Moving about in worlds not realised' (145-9). Not only could he still tolerate them as the gift of childhood, he... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - Literary Collections - 2005 - 575 pages
...was so fugitive! The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction. . . . (130-35) the "song of thanks and praise," but "for those obstinate questionings / Of sense and outward things, / Falling from us, vanishings. . . ." Questionings "of sense and outward things," vanishings,... | |
 | Melvyn Bragg - Fiction - 2005 - 508 pages
...was a good reader, Joe thought, never rushed, made sense of it as well as finding the poetry in it. 'Not for these I raise, The song of thanks and praise; But for these obstinate questionings/Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings... | |
 | Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Ronald Macaulay - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 257 pages
...repeated. The repetition of inflections can can also be effective as in this passage from Wordsworth: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;...of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ("Ode on Intimations of immortality") In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree Where... | |
 | Simon Jarvis - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 300 pages
...critics more to introduce wavering into the poem than this passage from its antepenultimate stanza: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast:Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise; But...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
 | David Rosen - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 224 pages
...[memories of the past] I raise The song of thanks and praise; But for these obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things Fallings from us, vanishings;...of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realized. (11. 140-146) In short, Wordsworth develops after 1802 into a poet of the sublime. Stanza 9 finishes... | |
 | Nancy Bogen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 426 pages
...creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise;...vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing... | |
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Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise : But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized ; High instincts before which our... 
