Ode: Intimations of Immortality

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lyric poem ode

"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Ode: Intimations of Immortality canonical	3
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood	3
Intimations of Immortality	2
William Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"	1
intimations of immortality	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1140136 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Context triple: [William Wordsworth, notableWork, Ode: Intimations of Immortality]

A. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century lyric poem by Thomas Gray that nostalgically reflects on youth and the inevitable suffering that comes with adult experience.
B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a renowned mid-18th-century meditative poem by Thomas Gray reflecting on mortality, social class, and the lives of the rural poor.
C. Songs of Innocence
Songs of Innocence is a 2014 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that explores themes of youth and personal history, controversially released for free to all iTunes users.
D. The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
E. Kubla Khan
"Kubla Khan" is a famous unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, celebrated for its vivid, dreamlike imagery and exploration of the creative imagination.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Target entity description: "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" is a major lyric poem by William Wordsworth reflecting on childhood, memory, and the loss and partial recovery of a visionary sense of the divine in nature.

A. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" is an 18th-century lyric poem by Thomas Gray that nostalgically reflects on youth and the inevitable suffering that comes with adult experience.
B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is a renowned mid-18th-century meditative poem by Thomas Gray reflecting on mortality, social class, and the lives of the rural poor.
C. Songs of Innocence
Songs of Innocence is a 2014 studio album by Irish rock band U2 that explores themes of youth and personal history, controversially released for free to all iTunes users.
D. The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
E. Kubla Khan
"Kubla Khan" is a famous unfinished poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, celebrated for its vivid, dreamlike imagery and exploration of the creative imagination.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	lyric poem ⓘ ode ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Intimations of Immortality ⓘ linked to: Ode: Intimations of Immortality Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood ⓘ linked to: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
author	William Wordsworth ⓘ
compositionPeriodEnd	1804 ⓘ
compositionPeriodStart	1802 ⓘ
containsLine	Hence in a season of calm weather ⓘ Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ⓘ Shades of the prison-house begin to close ⓘ The soul that rises with us, our life's Star ⓘ Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears ⓘ To me the meanest flower that blows can give ⓘ Trailing clouds of glory do we come ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
criticalReputation	central work of English Romantic poetry ⓘ one of Wordsworth's greatest poems ⓘ
exploresConcept	partial recovery of visionary insight through memory ⓘ spiritual intuition in childhood ⓘ the divine in nature ⓘ
firstPublicationYear	1807 ⓘ
firstPublishedIn	Poems, in Two Volumes ⓘ
form	ode ⓘ
genre	Romantic poetry ⓘ
hasTone	elegiac ⓘ meditative ⓘ
influencedBy	Christian imagery ⓘ Platonic philosophy ⓘ Wordsworth's childhood in the Lake District ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
literaryMovement	English Romanticism ⓘ linked to: Romanticism
meter	irregular meter ⓘ
numberOfStanzas	11 ⓘ
openingLine	There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream ⓘ
originalTitle	Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood ⓘ linked to: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
partOf	Wordsworth's major odes ⓘ
period	Romantic era ⓘ
rhymeScheme	irregular rhyme scheme ⓘ
setting	idealized English countryside ⓘ
subjectMatter	childhood ⓘ intimations of immortality ⓘ linked to: Ode: Intimations of Immortality loss of visionary experience ⓘ memory ⓘ nature ⓘ
theme	pre-existence of the soul ⓘ recollection as a source of spiritual insight ⓘ the contrast between childhood and adulthood ⓘ the fading of visionary glory with age ⓘ the relationship between the human mind and nature ⓘ

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