Ode By William Blake Analysis

Veering away from Blake, William Wordsworth also addresses the tensions between innocence and corruption as well as beauty and monstrosity in his work, Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood. He begins by explaining in the first stanza that there was a time when everything on earth was beautiful and appeared to be dreamlike to him, “appareled in celestial light.” However, things have greatly changed as he says in the last line of the first stanza, “the things which I have seen I now can see no more.” He still is able to see everything: the moon, sunshine, water, rainbows. However, it appears as though he does not see them in the same light as before, “that there hath past away a glory from the earth.” In the

While the relationship is already not approved by Edward’s sister and mother, who want him to marry a richer and more esteemed woman, the trouble really first comes into play when the Dashwoods move to Barton cottage in Devonshire, which their cousin offered to them for a cheap rate. Elinor must leave Edward, which moves to be very upsetting for both of them. After quite some time, Edward comes to visit Elinor at Barton cottage in chapter sixteen, but he appears to be very melancholy. A few chapters later, Marianne notices that Edward is wearing a ring with a lock of hair, and inquires if it is his sister, Fanny’s, hair. He responds that it is in fact, his sister’s hair, although it is obvious by his nervous response that he is hiding something. Later on in the novel, the sisters are introduced to the Steele’s the most important one being Lucy Steele. Elinor becomes civil friends with Lucy, to which Lucy confides that her and Edward have been secretly engaged for four years. Completely disheartened by this news, Elinor does her best to not appear shakened, although it is heart-wrenching news to her. As Lucy begins to develop a rapport with the Ferrars, she decides it is the right time and reveals to them the news of her secret engagement with Edward. The whole family is in an uproar and tells Edward that if he marries her, he shall lose his inheritance. Being a man of his word, he decides to give up his fortune for