Claudia's Reviews > The Child's Story

I always love stories that reminded me of amazing poetry or literature I came across before. This directly made me remember Ode. Intimations of immortality by William Wordsworth. It is a poignant story about life. About the phases of life... the child who always plays in Wordsworth is "Thou Child of Joy/Shout round me, let me hear thy shouts, thou happy/ Shepherd-boy!" The young man in love in Wordsworth is "Some fragment from his dream of human life,
Shaped by himself with newly-learnèd art;
A wedding or a festival,
A mourning or a funeral;
And this hath now his heart,
And unto this he frames his song:
Then will he fit his tongue
To dialogues of business, love, or strife;"
And so this amazing, if poetic book goes on and on in the trail of Intimations of Immortality. And I loved every bit of it. It urges us to love our moment. Whatever that is. While not forgetting our condition of travellers here. In this life. Right now. I think it's a very worthy short story. Reading it is a complete pleasure. It is as well written as any Charles Dickens' classic. 5 Stars.