Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' in Context OBE A world where a holistic

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symbolism of a dove signifying the Holy Spirit as advocate and comforter

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Wordsworth's 'Thanksgiving Ode' in Context OBE A world where a holisticWordsworths Thanksgiving Ode expresses the poets sentiments on the final outcome of the Napoleonic Wars. It is possibly Wordsworths most notorious poem, widely criticized for its alleged bellicosity and for one line in particular, addressed to God: Yea, Carnage is thy Daughter. Richard Gravil argues that the poem is a strenuous exercise in Christian Thanksgiving, appropriate to the close of two decades of global war. Its tone is reflective and self