• Mrs.R.Sarathy

An idea evolves and becomes dominant; being contradicted by another idea thereby taking its next developmental stage evolving into a newer form with its natural essence. This paper explores the platonic ideologies like innatism, pure reason, the pre existence of soul, the innate idea of virtue and the recollection as the means of knowledge that was romanticized during the romantic period. The researcher exclusively concentrates on William Wordsworth addressing Plato’s belief in the immortal soul that exists before and after death and replaces with his conviction that children have a divine wisdom that adults no longer possess. This paper specially sheds lights on the poem Ode to intimations of immortality, which contains similar concepts of the Greek philosopher Plato and Socrates.

Innatism, nativism, theory of pre-existence of soul, reason and experience.

"Innatism in Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.5-8, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06002.pdf

"Innatism in Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. pp5-8, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRFC06002.pdf