Coleridge and wordsworth7/9/2023 Wordsworth and other Romantics redefined poetry because they brought in the fact that if you understood the poem, then you understood the poet. Wordsworth advocated for real language to be used in poetry by which he meant simple and unsophisticated language that could be easily understood by people but it had to be purified. When Wordsworth wrote his poems, he used the setting of his district and the simple lives of his people to write the essay. According to Wordsworth, Dorothy (66) “this is why Wordsworth believes that his self expression is linked to eternal “unchangingness” of his home district.” The difference between modern poetry and the original romantic poetry is seen from this argument. In other words, Wordsworth meant that expressing his own subjective experience and putting it on paper, he thought he was expressing what all men feel. This is a generalization that a poet speaks for all the people when he speaks. Wordsworth uses self expression to extract eternal truth which distinguishes Romantics from modern poets. Some poets these days believe that self expression is an end in itself, because they believe all they got to do is to express them. Self expressionĪccording to Wordsworth, self expression alone is not a factor but a means that enables one get what is permanent and universal. According to Aristotle, “the plot was more important than character.” But with Wordsworth, he could have proposed that character was more important than plot because he emphasizes that the feelings of a poet is the one that matters (Kirsch, 102). Aristotle does not agree with this statement as can be seen from the example he gave about the plot and character. In a sample of his descriptive poems, he emphasizes that, feeling give more meaning to actions and not actions to feelings, thereby, implying that feelings determine actions. His poems on nature have less emphasis on nature, but rather concentrate on the feelings of the poet as he thinks about nature. This means bringing out to the environment what is internally felt by the poet. Wordsworth’s regards poetry as a natural spill over of powerful feelings. He made poets to break away from established rules of poetry and instead follow their inner feelings and experiences in order to speak for the ordinary people (Booker, 646). As an example, he wrote poems using an ordinary language yet his poetry is good. Wordsworth advocated that poetry should be articulated in a simple language that can easily be understood by men. This includes considering individual feelings, internal experiences, nature and religion of the poet. Wordsworth is one of the proponents of Romanticism in poetry. However, this does not mean that Wordsworth has neglected the elements of imitation, teaching and entertainment in poetry but analyses them from different perspectives. He disregards the idea that poetry is meant to please the audience and imitate actions but rather regards it as a form of expression of the poet as a result of his interactions with the world. In the preface, Wordsworth gives a new meaning to nature and poetry along appearance perspectives. ColeridgeĪmong the two authors of the poem, Coleridge was more critical and philosophical and I think he should have been the one writing the prelude. The reason for the second edition was due to the demand by people to know exactly what the poets were implying, whether there was a hypothesis behind its writing. According to Booker (45), “His poem “Magnum opus is the one referred to as the Prelude, a poem which he wrote in his early years and revised several times.” The first publication of lyrical ballads was 1798, while its edition came two years later. Wordsworth is a famous English poet whom together with Samuel Taylor helped shape Romantic poems in English literature. In this review, we are going to discuss Wordsworth’s analysis of Lyrical ballads.
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