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AGiolo - Wordsworth's views of Poetry and the Poet
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Up to Romanticism and Its Theory
The extract is taken from the Preface which is generally considered the Manifesto of Romanticism.
It is a text of literary criticism where William Wordsworth explains what the new form of poetry should be like. In the text he says the the object, the aim of poetry should be to make the incident of common life interesting.
Poetry should deal with situation from simple, rustic life and this should be transfigured by imagination.
The reason for this reference from humble follows from the assumption the man are better when close to nature because they are far from the artificial of civilisation because the feelings of country people develop naturally and without restraint are uncomplicated, lasting and influenced by nature.
Poetry should use familiar simple language "the language really use by man" because humble, country people live in communion with the object from which language originate and voices their feelings in a more immediate, forceful way.
Wordsworth explain in his Preface that Coleridge and he were trying to leave behind the specialise formal language of the 18 century.
He maintains that his poems are experimental attempts to get to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of man in a sense of vivid sensation.
Together with other romantic writers he wanted to draw up to the expressive power intend of relying automatically upon an artificial "uniquely poetic way of using language". Bout Wordsworth did not naively believed that the language of poetry could ever be a direct imitation of the language of the man in the street or the worker in the field. He says that the real language of the man must be selected by the poet that must be fitted to metrical arrangement and that it must be taken from man in a vivid sensation.
Real language on the hand and its selection and transformation by the poet's mind and craft on the other. What really interest Wordsworth and other romantic writers is not nature for its pure pleasure but how nature has affects the human mind and personality.
Wordsworth's definition of poetry confirmed the emphasis on subjective emotion and personal experience : "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of power of feelings".
It is a text of literary criticism where William Wordsworth explains what the new form of poetry should be like. In the text he says the the object, the aim of poetry should be to make the incident of common life interesting.
Poetry should deal with situation from simple, rustic life and this should be transfigured by imagination.
The reason for this reference from humble follows from the assumption the man are better when close to nature because they are far from the artificial of civilisation because the feelings of country people develop naturally and without restraint are uncomplicated, lasting and influenced by nature.
Poetry should use familiar simple language "the language really use by man" because humble, country people live in communion with the object from which language originate and voices their feelings in a more immediate, forceful way.
Wordsworth explain in his Preface that Coleridge and he were trying to leave behind the specialise formal language of the 18 century.
He maintains that his poems are experimental attempts to get to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of man in a sense of vivid sensation.
Together with other romantic writers he wanted to draw up to the expressive power intend of relying automatically upon an artificial "uniquely poetic way of using language". Bout Wordsworth did not naively believed that the language of poetry could ever be a direct imitation of the language of the man in the street or the worker in the field. He says that the real language of the man must be selected by the poet that must be fitted to metrical arrangement and that it must be taken from man in a vivid sensation.
Real language on the hand and its selection and transformation by the poet's mind and craft on the other. What really interest Wordsworth and other romantic writers is not nature for its pure pleasure but how nature has affects the human mind and personality.
Wordsworth's definition of poetry confirmed the emphasis on subjective emotion and personal experience : "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of power of feelings".