In Ode: Intimations of Immortality, Wordsworth is describing how he has changed his perception based on how his own view of nature has changed. In the first stanza, he starts off by saying, "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." By describing nature in the first part, and then following with the "freshness of a dream," he is describing a reawakening of his inner element of himself in nature. He also describes a release of ones domesticated self, into nature. For instance, in stanza 6 he describes, "Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; / Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, / And, even with something of a Mother's [mother nature's] mind...Forget the glories he hath known [nature can sweep anyone up and make someone forget all the created troubles of humankind through it], / And that imperial palace whence he came [city, township, etc., an exodus from the city into nature has more revealing effects about someone than the domesticated human version]. These are all seen throughout the poem, but there is one more that may be broader than expected. In stanza 4 near the end he states "Whither is fled the visionary gleam? / Where is it now, the glory and the dream?" Could Wordsworth be referring to the French Revolution? The glory and the dream could describe the new face of France after the Estates-General and the rest of the war broke out, and the way he states the "visionary gleam" may carry more concrete detail than expected. Wordsworth had a daughter in France during that time, and changed his opinion on the war near the end as it became a bloodbath. Nevertheless, the poem in its entirety focuses on man's interaction and change through nature, because nature carries a revealing and fresh effect on the human soul. What do you think?