Comparison of Two Poems of the Romantic Era

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Through the Innocence of Time

Comparison of Ode and Christabel

As we go through the different phases of our lives , we reach certain times where we achieve a definite enlightenment or realization . Whether it is about something that would help us accept and live a better life or something that would open us to the harsh yet inevitable truths of reality , we are sure to go pass it learning a significant thought or two . In William Wordsworth 's Ode and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's

Christabel , the readers are offered a picturesque view of how one goes through life , eventually learning how a human soul might have journeyed a cycle from the heavens to earth and back to the heavens , and how even the most innocent of beings could be overcome by evil and the lack of righteousness and in our world

William Wordsworth 's Ode : Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood is a deviation from the classical ode . Mainly following the trend Abraham Cowley set in his Pindarick , Wordsworth 's Ode takes on varying line lengths or verses commonly called the anisometric verse , as well as an irregular pattern of rhyme schemes This irregularity is evident even in the first four stanzas of the poem As the first two stanzas follow a strict nine-line format , the third through the last verse got lines varying from eight to twenty three . The distinct contrast of the rhyme schemes is also noticeable at the beginning of...