Fall 2025: Wordsworth’s Ode

Who views poetry as “merely imitation?” 

In Plato’s ideal state, would Homer’s Odyssey, an epic poem about Greek gods and the hero Odysseus, be permitted? 

Does Wordsworth agree with Plato’s assertion that poetry does not express truth?

Wordsworth claims poetry brings people close to the center of truth by expressing the essence of…

Plato and Wordsworth both acknowledged that beauty and truth exist.

Whose outlook on the state of our senses when we are born are supported by the following Bible verses?

Genesis 1:27 – “God created man in his own image.”

Ecclesiastes 3:11 – “[God] has put eternity into man’s heart.”

Romans 2:15 – “[Gentiles] show that the work of the law is written on their hearts.”