 | Jerome J. McGann - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 238 pages
...the 'Immortality Ode' to its redemptive phase by making a reprise of this passage from the Elegy: Oh Joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! ('Intimations Ode', i32-5) Ashes, embers, dust: Gray's poetical flight is earthward, to brute matter... | |
 | Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - Authors and printing - 1996 - 258 pages
...short lines that draw attention to themselves, ushering in a newly personal quality to the poetry: Oh joy that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! (II. 132-5) Moving on into this great ninth stanza of the Ode, we hear (more solemnly) of "perpetual... | |
 | Thomas Pfau - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 478 pages
...(Poems, pp. 2.71-77). It is a child transferentially associated with a past ravaged by forgetfulness ("O joy! that in our embers/ Is something that doth live, /That nature yet remembers," ll. 132.- 34) and recovered in images of reflexive imprisonment ("A creature / Moving about in worlds... | |
 | Alister E. McGrath - History - 2002 - 146 pages
...Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. . . O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! . . . Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal... | |
 | Liz Rosenberg - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2000 - 168 pages
...on his way attended; At length the Man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day. O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest; Delight and liberty, the simple... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Poetry - 2000 - 788 pages
...earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, 130 Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life! O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which... | |
 | Dionne Brand - Fiction - 2000 - 324 pages
...we can share this happiness. My life is perfect here with my mother. . . . and deep almost as life! O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! I memorized these lines for the teacher, Mrs. Palmer, and I was the best memorizer and when our mother... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 552 pages
...her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. ******* 0 joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live,...That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive ! The thor.ght of our past years in me doth breed Perpatual benedictions : not indeed Foi that which is most... | |
 | A. Robert Smith - Health & Fitness - 2001 - 237 pages
...thus death was not a frightening prospect but a liberation from the limitations fffphysicalitv. Ojoy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive! William Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortalitv" from Recollections of Earlv Childhood When I telephoned... | |
 | Wendy Lesser - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 253 pages
...world, but I was also more interested in my own past, as a thing apart from myself but linked to myself. O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live....thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction . . . When Wordsworth uses the first-person plural here, that is neither an accident nor... | |
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Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: Not for these I raise The song of thanks and praise... 
