Preface by Wordsworth

According to Worsdworth the definition of a poet and a poetry

 Wordsworth said that his selection of language is more intimately connected to the “primary laws of nature”. For him poet is only a common man who worked to give simple language to men. His reasons for these only that they convey their feeling and notions in simple ways. That shows that Worsdworth believed in simplicity and also seeks to show human nature in a pure state. In this way he gave important to poetry that included a range of persons and situations never written about before “The humble and rustic life taken seriously “

Wordsworth is trying to get answer the question that “what is a poet? “and in the same he brings out a conception of the poet as a “ man speaking to men “ For him that the poet’s main qualifications are not only the matter of technique but he is a person a human being whose feelings allow to others to give sympathy to their hearts and they translate passions into words that please. “ The poet thinks and feels in spirit of the passions of men. It importance at that time that poets must use the language of other men. As Sidney’s imitative poet the romantic poet does not copy nature as create in the same way as nature. Another thing of Wordsworth was that to make truth plausible to the readers.

  He defines poetry as the “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and further elaborates that poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. Through this Wordsworth trying to bring out the poetic creation in the intense matter and emotional activity. According to Worsdworth pleasure is the center idea in which we can found result so in this way his emphasizes that this poetic creation needs calmness and tranquility. Wordsworth thinks that the readers of such poetry will share the poet’s pleasure. He added that “poetry is not an imitation of imitation, but a concrete and sensuous illustration of both a fact and relationship ,which  provides pleasure and at the same time shows the universal importance of pleasure “.Wordsworth believed that poetry should reveal general truth like science. Here he compares truth with science. H e believed that there will be no different between ‘truth of man of science and ‘truth of poet’. It seems that they used different methods.

 Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads :

  The Lyrical Ballads were first published in 1798. It is the greater contribution of poems by Romantic poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The collection was one of the most important contributions to the world of literature .Its contained with individual poems as we can see such works of Coleridge “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abby” perhaps because of the quality and popularity Lyrical Ballads lies in its preface added by Wordsworth to the second edition published in 1800.

 Publication of Lyrical Ballads :

  Lyrical Ballads was originally published in 1798 with ‘Advertisement’ designed to preface the reader for the unorthodox style of poetry. The ‘Advertisement’ consisted of several paragraphs which connected with the ‘gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers ask to instead that readers. The preface is Wordswoth’s poetic manifesto Worsdworth try to do the poems are good on themselves means they have been writing in good techniques and qualities but he focused that the poem’s real meaning is going deeply into the mind of peoples when the poems are consisted with common everyday scenes of rural life and folk.

  The principle object of Wordsworth to his poems to chose and brings out the situations and accidents from common life and describe them throughout as far as was possible; in a selection of language really used by men. Another principle of his poems throw over them a coloring of imagination where a common man can see originally thins which are presented in the mind of unusual way.

  In today thought of a reader must be kept in his mind that it nothing unusual in the style of Wordsworth ‘Lyrical Ballads’. The simplicity and the depiction are the major things for ‘common people’. At that time the readers were used to a complex and artificial code of poetic style. Early some of the critics were harsh in their evolution of the Lyrical Ballads related the words like “shocking and unpoetics.

 We know that Wordsworth loves nature. He loves the rural life. He enjoyed the beauty of nature. So he said and added the children, women and men from rural setting. Here he opposes the more cosmopolitan characters of his contemporaries. These all leads as important fact of his poetry which he explains in his preface. Worsdworth held a remarkable close to the nature is the well-spring of human nature. Many of the Wordsworth poems are appreciate of the nature environment, shows deep love about nature the poet tried to appreciate and expressed his thought and ideas through nature and common language of men. Wordsworth believed that there was a element of the Divine to be found in nature , its shows tremendous potential to mould and even to instruct minds of men who live in its midst and shows emotional response unattainable outside of nature . Wordsworth frequently bring out in his preface to convey that “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

 It is this emphasis on the emotion behind his poetry that separates Wordsworth writings from those of his contemporaries. He sees as being the primary objective of the poet. Indeed, a large portion of his preface forms a direct response to the question “what is a poet” ?

 What is a poet? He is a men speaking to men- a man ( it is true) endued more lively sensibility. It shows more enthusiasm and tenderness that has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul.

 The importance of his poems for common men :

  Wordsworth had no any ideas of the probable effect of those poems. He flattered himself that who read these feel pleasure than feeling of common pleasure. He was well aware by those who should dislike them they would be read with more than common dislike . Worsdworth says that the result is different from his expectation in this only. He was included to request the assistance of a friend .Who furnished me with the poems of the ‘Ancient Mariner ‘the Foster –Mother Tale ‘the ‘Nightingale’ and the poem untitled ‘love’. In this poetry he wanted to represent “incidents and situations from common life “. Wordsworth said that he wanted to use selection of language which generally used by common men. He has done this in the matter of poetry and it was interesting to him because, obviously he was to relate to common people through his poetry. He think that he liked the professors who has a doctorate and teaching in the class but it may be happen that his skill of teaching will help to students understand the things. Rare but amazing when it happens.

 His style of writing  in easy way :

  The way Wordsworth writing is very easy for common people who want to read . He writes about the things which are related with common men lives for example “ We are seven “ in this he talks about a little girl. The in “Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. He describes in a beautiful way for the people that there is something which connected with you and around us : as nature .

 Preface to Lyrical Ballads Analysis:

  William Wordsworth was an English romantic poet who helped to launch to poetry I romantic era. He tried to give an understanding of his style of poetry. He himself strays away from the complex verbose written by David Thoreau in Walden “simplicity” “simplicity” “Simplicity”. Wordsworth claims that his poetries are simple to understand. He says his poetry it shouldn't contain over arching themes and incomprehensible ideas that can be ascertained by to full analysis of the poem itself. He ascribes to a completely different principle, the idea of words holding a direct meaning, linking to the natural elements that support maturity and growth and maintaining accentual and comprehensible thought.

  In the beginning of the preface to Lyrical ballads he addresses his predecessors and talks about poetry before his time. They have been accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of modern writers, if they persist in reading this book to its conclusion feelings of strangeness and awkwardness.

  He claims that his predecessors will have issues with his poetry based on simplicity and the language that is very well maintained by him through the poems. In the simplicity of other poets his ideas are simple, quite and understand lead us to straight to the point and there are no completely abstract innate or thought provoking ideas that can surmise from his poetry. He proved that his ideas are related with natural and rustic themes. He ha chosen humble and rustic life because in the condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain maturity. In the condition of life our elementary feelings coexist in a state of greater simplicity.

Wordsworth gives that how should be the simple method help to common people in a way that one should use nature to reveal his or her thought and ideas. Not only nature relevant in everyone’s life but it also fosters a sense of maturity when relatable ho human emotions and poetry.

 All in all, Wordsworth makes two remarkable points that poetry should be simple and direct as well it should be associated with the love and beauty of nature around us. He also refers to the gaudiness of his predecessor’s poetry in terms of vocabulary and literary themes and techniques .We all know very well about Wordsworth he rebels against those who (predecessors) presenting the poetry in a different format. It believed  that he maintains in his “preface to Lyrical Ballads “ is very simple as we know that simple and simplicity words are connected with Worsdworth own. Simply put Worsdworth “ For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings “ and this is true to poem to which any value can be attached when it never produced on the any variety of subjects but by a men who , being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility had also thought long and deeply.

  Wordsworth I think at that time he was doing nothing but claiming and claiming and so that he claims that ‘poetry is what ‘  poetry is something which comes out naturally by feelings that have been deeply fostered and thought out. He belies that poetry can be has multiple topics, not to fully forced to wire in on one or two subject but it has multiple choice of topics. Poetry necessarily linked to the natural aspects’ that Worsdworth highly prescribes.

v Wordsworth’s  criticizes towards his predecessors

  On the other hand Wordsworth criticizes some of his contemporizes and his predecessors style. He claims that the readers should be found personifications in the poetry made by writers’ in a different ways. In this volume we can see this.

  Wordsworth moral purpose was imitate and as far as possible to adopt the very language of men. Such personifications do not make any regular part of that language.

v  In turn Wordsworth claims that intangible ideas and loquacious concepts will not be in his Ballads. In fact he emphasizes that his writing will appeal to the common men and the things which are written must be understood by common men. In the matter of diction he is claiming that sentiments about diction never use any type of diction because he wants to keep his writing and his poetry as clear and the simple language chosen which is the possible way understood the language with common purpose “From their rain in society and sameness and narrow circle of their intercourse in the influence of society. They convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions.

 Wordsworth believed that poets are classless beings uninfluenced by society’s qualms and the other side some of the contemporaries and predecessors who used verbose and complex themes to express their thought. Worsdworth is simplistic maintains a central point and naturalistic in every aspect.

Wordsworth as a philosopher

v  Wordswoth’s philosophy of life, his theory of poetry , and his political views were all intricately connected. One chance may bring many changes in others.

Suddenly Worsdworth come in contact with Godwin and his determination to abandon his early naive reliance on intuition and subject all his beliefs to close scrutiny.

Coleridge remarked that half the preface was in affect the child of his own brain. He believed that Wordswoth’s conception of poetry relied too much on Hartley’s theories and did not explain Wordswoth’s poems. Coleridge says in the Biographia Leteraria (1814) that he was convinced Wordsworth work was not produced of simple fancy. Even more he found the different between poetry and prose. He agreed with Wordswoth’s idea of simple and lovely poetic diction but felt his collation had not given thought to the selecting from the language of everything life.

Wordswoth’s positions in his later work grew closer to that of Coleridge but the poetic doctrines elaborated in the preface solidly underlay “ Lyrical Ballads “ and were springboard to the explain philosophy of art thought the prelude by Worsdworth.