1. Tintern Abbey
  2. The Recluse
  3. The Prelude
  4. Immortality Ode
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Option 4 : Immortality Ode

The correct answer is Immortality Ode.

  •  The full title of the poem is "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood".
  • The poem was completed in two parts: with the first part comprising of four stanzas about the innocence of childhood. When Wordsworth gave the first part of the poem to Coleridge for his perusal, Coleridge responded with a poem of his own, named "Dejection: An Ode". 
  • The full poem was finished in 1804 and published in a book named Poems, in Two Volumes in 1807.

  •  The fourth stanza of the ode ends with a query, and Wordsworth answers it with seven additional stanzas completed in early 1804.
  • It is an irregular Pindaric ode where Wordsworth introduces readers to the idea of pre-existence, the idea that the soul existed before the body, and will continue to exist afterwards. 
  • In the given line, Wordsworth is attempting to suggest that our earthly existence is just a fraction of our immortal selves.
  • Modern critics have referred to this poem as a "Great Ode" and have ranked it among Wordsworth's best. 
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