Exercise 2)

a)

The powers of poetry:

1. the power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by means of the faithful adherence to the truth of nature.

2. the power of giving the interest of novelty by means of the modifying colours of imagination.

b)

Writing a collection of poems of two kinds:

1. subject: supernatural incidents and agents.

2. subject: everyday characters and incidents.

c) Plan of the Lyrical Ballads:

                           Coleridge                                                                Wordsworth

subject:              supernatural persons and characters.                    characters and incidents from common life.

aim:                    to make supernatural situations real.                     to give them the charm of novelty.

procedure:         by procuring in the reader those shadows of          by directing the mind's attention to the loveliness and

                          imaginations which make believe the                       wonders of the world.

                          situation as real.                                                          

 - Profile of the ideal poet

1. he "brings the whole soul of man into activity" with the subordination of its faculties.