Preface : Wordsworth.. ( My Assignment )

Name : Solanki Pratiksha M.
Roll No : 26
Sem : 1 ( 2013 -2015 )
Paper Name : Literary Theory and Criticism
Subject :Preaface - Wordsworth
Submitted to : SMT. S.B. Gardi
                        Dept. of English
                        M.K.Bhavnagar University
                        pratikshasolanki068@gmail.com

About William Wordsworth :

     William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet and he was born : 7th April, 1770 and Died: 23ed April, 1850.  Wordsworth called his poem "Experimental". Wordsworth gives his famous definition of Poetry as..

" Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, 

emotions recollected in tranquility. "

A fourth and final edition of Lyrical  Ballads was published in 1805.

Preface : Wordsworth :

• Wordsworth's purpose to spreading poems, was to select incidents and situations from common people and their common life.
• Wordsworth's concern about the poetry and language of poetry is very developed.
• Wordsworth says that..

" The Poems in the volume are ' Experiments ' since his chief aim is too see,

if the conversational language in use among the middle,

and lower classes of society can be employed expediently,

and 

fruitfully to write Poems."

About Poet :

     A Poet, is the one who has the greatest power of Imagination. He knows human nature and soul more than others. Poet has strong power and a ability to giving something more naturally and delightful things to audience. Especially Poet has the greatest power to expressing his ideas and thoughts in proper way and than express all things in proper way by words.

" To be a Poet is to have a soul so quick to discern,

that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, 

that discernment is but

 a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion-

-a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling,

and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”  

-By George Eliot

About Poetry :

" Poetry according to Wordsworth, 

It's really very well said that-

Is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge,

the impassioned expression that is in,

the countenance of all Science "

     It means poetry finds to added and improvement just like Morning star which remove it's radiance through the darkness of life. As same, The Poet is a teacher and with  the help of poetry he taught us to moral lessons for the life. His poetry is not simple or common but it's teaches us deep moral meanings.

Wordsworth's Theory of Poetic Diction :

     There are many following poems which are considered just as experiments or Advertisement to the 1798 edition of Lyrical Ballads, that time Wordsworth and Coleridge state that...

"....the poem in the collection were intended

as adeliberate experiments in style

and subject matter."

So, with the help of "Preface" Wordsworth also strongly commitment with his state to writing in the ordinary language of people not for highly political one. In the form of Ballads , poems are highly related with realistic situations. 

• The language of poetry should be the language " really used by men ", but it should be a selection of such Poems.
• It should be a language of men in a state of vivid sensation. It should have certain imagination.
• For Wordsworth means is that the words in conversation, if they are properly selected, would provide the rough framework of language of poetry.

William Wordsworth's "Preface to The Lyrical Ballads " :

" A poetry of revolt against the moral ideas

is poetry of revolt against Life.

A poetry of indifference towards moral ideas is

a poetry of indifference towards Life.."

     A large number of poems written by Wordsworth, but theme , plot all those things are remains last long forever. In the second addition of The Lyrical Ballads (1802), he wrote preface to defend him self form the negative review. so here briefly we discussed review about Wordsworth's views on the theme and subject matter.

Object (Subject matter of Poetry) :

In Poems he choose proper incidents and situations from the common life and to relate and describe them throughout as far as possible. he used language which is used by man and he presents certain colouring of imagination.

Humble and rustic life :

He generally chosen humble and rustic life, because in that condition it finds better soil in which they can attain their maturity and people finds the permanent and beautiful forms of nature.

Language (Style of Poetry) :

With the help of language it provides emotions and real effect. A true man communicated by the form of language and convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions.

Wordsworth's Daffodils :

     Here the poem "Daffodils" - written by William Wordsworth. The word "wander" denotes moving without destination. Tn this "Preface to The Lyrical Ballad"-he says that poet is not need for external stimulus so that he could write a poem, here Wordworth didn't meet daffodils when he wrote the poem.A good poet doesn't need to write about daffodils.

     There are two contradictory cases that either poetry has a purpose or not. Thus with the help of "Daffodils" Wordsworth tells something about Lyrical Ballad. In this poem he focuses on the nature and beauty. A lyric poem presents the deep feelings and emotions so it's a beautiful example of Lyrical Ballads.

Conclusion :

     Wordsworth's spirit of Romanticism is, it is one type of document that where he puts stress. It would not to be wrong to say that Wordsworth himself contradicts because at the stage of contemplation a poet choose words very carefully.

  

 Thank you..!