Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Introduction
William wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 23 April 1850) was a major English romantic poet who with Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the romantic age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads the year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by wordsworth in the collection an evening walk and description sketches in 1795 he received a legacy of good pounchs from raisley covert and became able to pursue a career as a poet .
Questions and Answers
1) What is the basic difference between the poitic creed classicism and romanticism?
I think we find vital difference between the classicism and romanticism generally they are two ideologies classicism and romanticism. But it is different.
Classicism :
Intellect is the guiding force while romanticism imagination is the guiding . We find romantic poets they did not believe in any kind of restrained ruling . They believe in liberty and freedom . Here i write both different description
The imitation primary of the style and aesthetic principals of ancient Greeks and Romans classical art and literature . The term neoclassical is often used in refering to revivals of classicism.
Roamnicism :
It is moment in the literature that lasted from about 1750 to 1870 characterised by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach freedom of thought and expression and an idealization of nature so we understand this description though what is difference between classicism and romanticism.
2) why does wordsworth say what is poet ? Rather than who is poet.
A poet is a man speaking men endowed with more lively sensibility poet although the romantic place a lot of important on the inherent talent within a person to come up with poetry who certainly does not come from any other planet he is men .
3) what is poetic diction ? Which sort of poetic diction is suggested by wordsworth in his preface.
Diction means choose word poetic diction mean unique style of each individual poet Poetic diction mean language which really used by men to be with imotions which are genuine and much use humble and rustic life
Poetic diction is suggested by wordsworth in his preface he says that the rustic life to be with emotions which are more genuine and therefore he is trying to capture in the words really used rustic men in their diction emotions which he finds to be closer to reality.
4) What is poetry ?
Generally we say that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling according to wordsworth poetry is breath and finer spirit of all knowledge the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science poetry is the instrument for the propagation of moral thought.
5) Discuss Daffodils I wan dered lonely as a cloud with reference to wordsworth poitic creed.
Daffodils poem diven in four stanza . This poem start this line
I wandered lonely as a cloud....
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
This poem three Stanza is written in past tense and last Stanza written in present I feel this poem is such beautiful imagenary of words first to last Stanza is example of his poetic creed . At the last Stanza poet remember daffodils it is recollect the daffodils mood last Stanza last time.
And then my heart with pleasure fins and dance with the daffodils this line also creat in readers mind in feel that spontaneous overflow powerful feeling.
