What is the author's style in the poem, Ode: Intimations of Immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood?

Overall, Wordsworth uses a fairly elevated diction throughout the poem. This is typical of the ode form, which tends to be very ceremonious in its address. As a result, the language used in the poem is much more academic and weighty than one would hear during everyday speech, even during Wordsworth’s time. For example, the last four lines of the seventh stanza alone features several fairly uncommon words such as “palsied,” “equipage,” and “vocation” (54). Furthermore, the speech and language is very much grounded in Wordsworth’s literary era, namely the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, also considered the English Romantic period. For example, lines such as “it is not now as it hath been of yore” and “as to the tabor’s sound,” with their use of words like “hath,” “yore,” and “tabor,” feature language we would consider fairly antiquated in modern-day literature (6, 21).