Thinking activity on Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballad

Thinking activity on Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballad

1) What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of  'Classicism' and 'Romanticism'?

Ans:- the major difference between classicism and romanticism is classical writer and poets wrote with intellect as it is the guiding force and romantic wrote with imagination as it is the guiding force the shift was from intellect to imagination.

2) Why does Wordsworth say 'What" is poet? rather than who is poet?

Ans :-  From wardswarth's view poet is  human being ..who is overall "in degree" a far batter human being than ordinary human being.

3)What is poetic diction?Which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth  in his preface?

Ans :-

Diction means that the way of choosing words for a poem. 

wardswarth says that a real man will not do the poem in such ornamental language. so biography of literia coleridge asked him that whom he considers as a real man. the real man in a country side man this answers to coleridge is already given by wardswarth in his preface.

4) What is poetry?

Ans :- Poetry is a kind of medium to teach the people  morality with delight Poetry is a breathe and finer spirit of all knowledge..According to Wordsworth,"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility".

5) Discuss 'Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud'with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed.

Ans :- If one wants to elaborate the defination of wardswarth on poetry his very famous poem Daffodils is the best example. from very beginning the poem is in past tense till third stanza and in the last one the revelation of his recollection of memories when he went to walk in the nature which was captured by his eyes comes out with the powerful overflow which exactly is the definition he wants to tell us.