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Ode: Intimations of Immortality usage of nature in this poetry by Woodsworth

 Cite and explain instances of Nature images used by Wordsworth in his poem Ode: Intimations of Immortality. Give an introduction of the poetry:  1804, published in 2 volumes in 1807,  There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;— Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more. (lines 1–9) Mention of meadow, grove, steam, earth  Surrounding and aspect of nature in second stanza To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong: The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; (lines 22–26) Stanza VIII mention nature beginning of the pem starts with mourning the loss of youthness and soothing the same with his connection with the nature.  Mention of...