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PLombardo - Preface to Lyrical Ballads
by PLombardo - (2010-10-29)
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Subject matter of poetry             Poetry should deal with incidents and situation from common life.

                                                   The situation from common life that the poet prefer is the rural life

                                                   because in that condition the feelings find great maturity.

 

 

The language of poetry             Poetry should use familiar language that should be selected. The     

                                                   poet has to select the language and to use it with imagination to                

                                                   present the things to the reader's mind in unusual way.

 

 

The poet's identity                     The poet is a man speaking to other man who has more sensibility,    

                                                   and he knows better the human mind, not only her primary feelings.

 

 

The creative act of the poet        The creative process starts from an emotion which is elementary.

                                                    Using a selected language the things are more interesting when the

                                                    words used excite the feelings of the men.