Wordsworth's Idea of Childhood

Poets and philosophers have imagined childhood as an awakening from the sleep before life, or the sleep between lives.

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Some see it as a transitional phase between the sleep of non-existence and the waking sleep of modern life.

I love the way William Wordsworth put it:

"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star,

Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar.”

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