If I was talking about spirituality regarding Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality' and Blakes 'The Tyger', what would be an example of an introduction with a clear thesis statement?

The thesis statement is underlined/bold and always at the end of an introduction... NOTE: (O) and (T) are the abbreviated forms of the poems' titles. Both William Blake and William Wordsworth use various methods to explore spirituality in ‘The Tyger’ (T) and ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’ (O), respectively. In Blake’s poem, spirituality takes a religious form as the poet contemplates major philosophical concerns such as creation, judgement and mortality. In (O) too, Wordsworth links spirituality heavily to religion, but concentrates on childhood as being the closest entity to God and therefore more spiritually engaged. As two of the first-generation Romantic poets, Blake and Wordsworth identify the good that can come from spirituality and religion, yet seem to believe that it should come from within the individual rather than the Church as an institution – a common Romantic criticism. As the ideas explored are so vast in their essence, the poems both display a high degree of ambiguity, which tends to emerge from the Sublime and gives, especially (T), a strong interrogative tone. Ultimately, both Blake and Wordsworth present spirituality as an entity of religious concern that provides the common man, with a gateway to enlightenment, whilst also placing a high degree of responsibility on the act of the poet’s writing.

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