This is the third episode about Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." If you're just joining us, start at episode 131, where the poem actually begins.
We are at the good part of the poem. The first few lines of the fifth section are the most famous of the poem. They are lines I have heard quoted over pulpits all my life, but as you'll hear, I don't think Wordsworth would have liked the interpretation that's often given there. Good thing he's not around to get all snooty about it.
May is a crazy month. When I recorded this, the weather was sunny and warm and beautiful. As I edit this, it is overcast and cold and in the 40s. It snowed yesterday! It'll be beautiful again in a day or so, I'm sure.
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