Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballad

     Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth 

The Preface of Lyrical Ballads is an essay. It was composed by the “William Wordsworth” . the second edition published in January in 1801 of the poetry collection Lyrical Ballads, and then greatly expanded in the third edition of 1802. It has comes to be seen as a de facto manifesto of the Romantic movement. 

 Q. 1 What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of ‘classicism’ and ‘romanticism’?

  Classicism and romanticism ae two ideologies. Romanticism believed that one would only find truth through their own intuition given they highlights the importance of individual though and not societal thought. Classicism believed thatman should conform to universal thought and ideas.

Q.2 Why does Wordsworth say ‘What is poet” rather who is poet?

     Poet means “Men speaking to men’ according Wordsworth. A man endowed with more lively sensitivity. A poet like other human but different from them in degree. He says that “ endowed with more lively sensitivity. A poet has Knowledge of human nature and a more comprehensive.

Q. 3 What is poetic Diction? Which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth in his preface?

  Poetic diction means, choice of words or language really used by men. According to Wordsworth, “Poerty is the breath and finer sprit of all knowledge, the impassioned that is in the countenance of all Science. He suggest to “Preface to the Lyrical ballads”

Q. 4 What is Poetry?

    Wordsworth Gives a definition of poetry, ‘Poetry is the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility’. Poet write about feeling, emotion of his life.

Q. 5 Discuss ‘Daffodils ‘ I wondered lonely as a cloud with reference to Wordsworth poetic creed.

  Daffodils is one of the best poem of Wordsworth. This poem written in four stanzas. Poem written in two tense. First three in present tense and last one in past tense.

According to definition of Wordsworth “ poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling; it takes origin from emotions recollect in tranquility.