Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Q1) What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of "classicism" and "romanticism"?
Ans: there are two ideologies, in classicism they believed that intellect is the guidance force. we come to romanticism we find the imagination, imagination is the guilding principle.
classicism:1) in neo-classicism restrained was the ruling world they believed that they should be restrained. 2) classicism believed in objectivity that good poetry should be objective.
romanticism: 1)they did not believe in any kind of restrained they believed in liberty, freedom so we find free play of emotions there is no retrained on them and they believed that a man poet is free to express in the way he likes. 2) romantic poetry basically subjective Wordsworth says that good poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling recollected in tranquility.
Q2) why does Wordsworth say 'what' is poet? rather than who is poet?
Ans: a poet is a man speaking to man, a man with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul that are supposed to be common among mankind a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him delighting to contemplate similar volition and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.
Q3) what is poetic diction? which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth in his preface?
Ans: poetic diction means choice of words a choice of words which then lends a unique style for each individual poet or author, in his preface says that he finds humble and the rustic life the humbleness in countryside life the rustic life to be with emotions which are more genuine and therefore he is trying to capture in the words really used by men in the countryside rustic men in their diction, their emotion which he finds to be closer to really close a not reality but closer to more genuineness, he finds that more genuine probably city dwell as a more artificial so that is what he finds now this is controversy of Wordsworth.
Q4) what is poetry?
Ans: Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of the powerful feelings.
Q5) discuss 'daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed?
Ans: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” reflects the main features his poetic theory. This poem is a direct fruit of his experience and observation. Once the poet and his sister Dorothy saw a great number of daffodils closed to the waterside while passing through woods. The poet stored up the beautiful scene of the daffodils and 2 years later composed the poem recollecting it. When the poet came across a host of golden daffodils, they were weaving and fluttering in the gentle breeze.
Ans: there are two ideologies, in classicism they believed that intellect is the guidance force. we come to romanticism we find the imagination, imagination is the guilding principle.
classicism:1) in neo-classicism restrained was the ruling world they believed that they should be restrained. 2) classicism believed in objectivity that good poetry should be objective.
romanticism: 1)they did not believe in any kind of restrained they believed in liberty, freedom so we find free play of emotions there is no retrained on them and they believed that a man poet is free to express in the way he likes. 2) romantic poetry basically subjective Wordsworth says that good poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling recollected in tranquility.
Q2) why does Wordsworth say 'what' is poet? rather than who is poet?
Ans: a poet is a man speaking to man, a man with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul that are supposed to be common among mankind a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him delighting to contemplate similar volition and passions as manifested in the goings-on of the universe, and habitually impelled to create them where he does not find them.
Q3) what is poetic diction? which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth in his preface?
Ans: poetic diction means choice of words a choice of words which then lends a unique style for each individual poet or author, in his preface says that he finds humble and the rustic life the humbleness in countryside life the rustic life to be with emotions which are more genuine and therefore he is trying to capture in the words really used by men in the countryside rustic men in their diction, their emotion which he finds to be closer to really close a not reality but closer to more genuineness, he finds that more genuine probably city dwell as a more artificial so that is what he finds now this is controversy of Wordsworth.
Q4) what is poetry?
Ans: Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of the powerful feelings.
Q5) discuss 'daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed?
Ans: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” reflects the main features his poetic theory. This poem is a direct fruit of his experience and observation. Once the poet and his sister Dorothy saw a great number of daffodils closed to the waterside while passing through woods. The poet stored up the beautiful scene of the daffodils and 2 years later composed the poem recollecting it. When the poet came across a host of golden daffodils, they were weaving and fluttering in the gentle breeze.
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