Thinking Activity- Wordsworth's preface to lyrical Ballad.

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

Answer : In Classicism intellect is the guiding force while for Romanticism imagination is the Guiding force for writing.According to Neo-Classical writers restrained was the ruling world while Romantic writers were believed in liberty and equality.

2) Why does Wordsworth says "What is Poet?" rather "Who is Poet?"

Answer:  In the Preface of Wordsworth he says a poet is a man speaking to sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a great knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, who rejoices, more than other men in the spirit of life, habitually impelled to creative volition's, passion and situations where he does not find them.

          Poet defers from normal people in degree for example he is endowed with more lively sensibility. A poet is a person who creates something in his imagination even if it does not exist.

Wordsworth asks what is poet because this is regards to the answer and says that, he is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness. 

He has greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than one supposed to be common among mankind.

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

Answer:  In simple words poetic diction is choice of words which gives a unique style for each individual poet or author.

There is no essential difference between the words used in prose and in metrical composition. Words of prose and poetry are not clearly discriminated, so that words which be used in prose can find place in poetry.

4) What is Poetry?

Answer: Wordsworth has said that;

                      "Poetry is spontaneous overflow of feeling recollect in Tranquility"

-Poetry is something like one's inner feeling for particular thing,person or situation.

5) Discuss "Daffodils" with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed.

Answer:

                 " I wandered as a lonely cloud..." Daffodils Is the best example of Wordsworth's definition of poetry. Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of a powerful feeling, recollected in tranquility. Many time, we capture beauty of nature by our eyes, but we cannot recollect and express that delight in tranquility. Wordsworth does this amazingly. He enjoys the nature and represents it beautifully. We can say nature is At it's best In this poetry. Delight of a particular moment and it's memory are represented all together.