S0079 · wordsworth_intimations_ode · registry identity
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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1996 · The Schools We Need
William Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' is cited to illustrate the Romantic view of custom as a heavy, deadening weight on the soul.
direct The Romantic contrast between the instinctive holiness of the child and the corruption of custom easily facilitates anti-intellectualism and the disparagement of book learning.
Warrant (implicit): Literary metaphors describing social norms as heavy weights reflect an ideological commitment to the superiority of instinct over learned behavior.
could fail ifPoetic expressions of the loss of childhood wonder may be elegiac rather than prescriptive arguments against the necessity of socialized learning.
Wordsworth's poetry characterizing childhood as 'heaven-born freedom' and social custom as a 'weight' heavy as frost.
direct The Romantic contrast between the instinctive holiness of the child and the corruption of custom easily facilitates anti-intellectualism and the disparagement of book learning.
Warrant (explicit): The poetic idealization of childhood innocence logically leads to the devaluation of formalized knowledge and tradition.
could fail ifOne can value the emotional purity of childhood while still believing that the intellect requires rigorous, structured cultivation to reach maturity.
2016 · Why Knowledge Matters
William Wordsworth's 1802 poem regarding the 'earthly freight' and 'weight' of custom on the soul.
related Progressive education views sin as a result of social customs imposed on an innocent being rather than an inherent trait.
2020 · How to Educate a Citizen
William Wordsworth's poetry used as evidence of the Romantic 'deification' of the child.
direct The essence of educational romanticism is the idea that education should be individualized to accord with the child’s nature.
Warrant (implicit): The core tenets of a pedagogical movement can be accurately defined by the philosophical and poetic ideals of the intellectual era from which it takes its name.
could fail ifThe 'educational romanticism' practiced in classrooms may bear little functional resemblance to the high-literary aesthetic expressed in Wordsworth’s poetry.
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Wordsworth, 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood,' lines 125–32Wordsworth, 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality'Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”