Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji university,Bhavanagar
Name :Pandya Mehal Jitendrabhai
Roll no. :19
Semester :sem -1
Enrollment no. :2069108420200029
Batch :2019-2021
Paper : Literary criticism
Assignment -Topic:Preface of William Wordsworth
English Department -Bhavanagar
William Wordsworth
william wordsworth was a poet. He was born on 7th April 1770.He was an english romantic poe. william Wordsworth famous for his lyrical ballads.lyrical Ballad published by William and his friend coleridge in 1798 not being violently attacked by the neoclassical critics of the Burke and the quarterly reviews it is doubtful whether he would have append a single line of Criticism. the chief of his critical paper is the preface to the second edition of the lyrical ballads dated 1800 which was revised in enlarged in the subsequent addition of 1802 in 1815.This creation brought change in Romantic age. Wordsworth describe his theory of poetry view and idea in the preface of lyrical ballads.
The idea or aim of writing the lyrical Ballad introduced to the Reader poem of William Wordsworth felt at each and every new original poet had to create the test by which readers will read and enjoy and this is the basic objective of the preface of lyrical Ballad.
Wordsworth apprize first the poetry which written earlier and these poetry shows how new written poetry is differ than them,also how can be appreciated.
Theme
Theme of Preface is about the view of William for poetic diction or subject and object of poetry. Poet says that he had chosen to write about an incident and events from the countryside people's life and the language really used by them.But this was only imagination. we can see the human nature or a reality in simplicit. so,wordsworth chosen humble and rural or simple lifestyle. Common people are next near to nature, so we can not see the artificiality and ornamatical feeling and nature.
Subject matter of poetry
this is the theme of poetry as per Williams view poem was choosing from the situation and event which happen in simple life and in common people how to describe them by words for selection of language really used by men and making the imagination new to colouring it to make that incident interesting by pressing in them really thought not expressive.Poetry is a form,there are emotion, feeling, culture, originality not artificial sense, humility and humbleness etc.
when poet write poetry imagination thought and spontaneous feeling is very important and useful for poet to write poem as we know poetry is very hard to make because it has less word to express too much tales and feeling reality is the thing which we find in simplicity so the common Lifestyle culture etcetera are subject of poetry.
The language of poem
William Wordsworth also talk about the language which using by the poet he said that language would be come on is the people are rustic and common life still life so they can also read the poem and get the improvement of poem and literature which are written on their cultural and lifestyle.
What is poet?
Wordsworth ask one question is not who is a poet but he ask what is a. He gave the definition of poet giving in his view in answer that,
"He is a man speaking to men it is true in soft wheat more likely sensibility more enthusiasm and tenderness"
He said poet has knowledge of the nature and comprehensive sound also common among the mankind this kind of quality according Wordsworth have to in poet.
Wordsworth's definition of poetry :
" Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings it takes origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. "
Poetry is to teach moral lessons with a feeling of delight. It is to give instruction and delight by connecting people with the poet and his imagination.
*Discuss 'Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud' with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed...
" I wandered lonely as a cloud....."
Daffodils is the best example of Wordsworth's definition of poetry " poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, recollected in tranquillity.''
Many times, we capture the beauty of nature by our eyes, but we cannot recollect and express that delight in tranquillity. Wordsworth does this amazingly. He enjoys the nature and represents it beautifully. We can say nature is at its best in this poetry. Delight of a particular moment and it's memory are represented all together.
Wordsworth 'S concept of poetic diction :-
Wordsworth stated that is object in adopting a simple addiction for his poem was nearly to ascertain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society was adapted to the purposes of poetic pleasure the publication of a second edition of the lyrical Ballad in 1800 provided him with the occasion to explain it. explaining why only you're interested life was chosen for this purpose he says they did ed condition free from all outside insurance men speak from their own personal experience and gone with the feelings and notions in simple and on collaborated expression pattern language therefore is a more permanent and a fast more philosophical language standard regis frequently substituted for a tripod routines today as confirming honorable themselves and their dad in proportion is there separate themselves from the simple piece of men and indulge indulge arbitrary and capricious habits of expression in order to furnish too for fickle tastes and fickle appetite of their own creation.Wordsworth said that his purpose is to imitate and as far as is possible to adopt the very language of men.
Pop Jonson and Grey demand high and top most poetic diction the terms diction and poetic diction are generally used in the augustan age of English literature the idea from point to point Wordsworth closely examines the simple and primary fondness and duties which he thought where to be found amidst the present class to Wordsworth it was the efforts Wordsworth villas in our villages who set up the two thought of humanity living is natural draught Desire them to live to support such a belief it was instinctive for Wordsworth to come forward as a leader of real human speech spoken by the common people does the speech of the rustic seem to be a proper medium of poetry he writes that most of his poems are Britain chiefly with view of excretion how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society requested to the purposes of poetic pleasure.
Wordsworth lyrical Ballad is a landmark in the history of English literature, especially in poetry Wordsworth studied the simple object of nature and give them the imaginative colours Wordsworth lived on the plane of common life concentrating on the life that he so around him so in Wordsworth poem we find an image in native record of the best real life as well as the best role beauties of place he lived in Wordsworth so the spirit of joy in nature referred divine spirit providing the object of nature.
He continued to believe throughout his life that the spirit of God Lives through the object of nature and found ,he didn't believe in high imaginative power he believed in simplicity of diction and what poetry to the level of the common speech of common life common life of the common human being so they can also enjoy the literature.
*The function of the poetry:-
according to Wordsworth's poetry is the breath and Finer spirit of all knowledge the impatient expression that is in the countenance of all science the poet is the main wood looks before and after he is the rock and defence for human nature and a folder and preserver carrying everywhere with him relationship and love the poet bites together What a patient and knowledge the vast empire of human society poetry is the first and last of all knowledge as Immortal is the heart of man Wordsworth defines poetry in his preface to the lyrical ballads he says that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollecting Infra quality Wordsworth also discuss the term poets and the language used by the poet while writing poem he says that the poet was a man speaking to man.
The poet Converse with general nature the knowledge of the poet and the man of science is Pleasure have a word the poet sang a song in which all human beings joined with him rejoice in the presence of truth is our visible friend and only companion.
- style of poetry:-
Wordsworth view on poetic style where the most Revolutionary of all the idea in the preface he insisted his poems where written in selection of language of Men in a state of Vivid sensation and common man for Wordsworth the rustic speech become synonymous with the general human space the language spoken by a human being in a state of emotion perched and purification by the poet for the main when was speak of the selection of the language of men he clear realise that it is only when selection had taken place that the poet will be able to separate the vulgarity of common life from his composition the poet must eliminate whatever was distressing.
There is no distinction between the language of prose and poetry according to William Wordsworth says that there either is no can be any essential differences between the language of pros and metrical composition heatex up a Sonnet of Grey and thinking on the lines which were valuable in it where hardly different from what they would be in prose he reject the use of personification in the poem because personification cannot form a part of the language used by the man.
To use of metaphor in a state of patient had been regarded as being the language of primitive poet so he does seem to recommend a kind of primitivism which was in other words experience of strong patient it will be seen from the above remarks cat breeders admit that there was a distinction between the language of poetry and prose.
Conclusion :
Wordsworth idea of a new theory of poetry is very good given by him in ‘Preface’ addition. He gives commitment to all poets who write poetry to be written in simple language. Thus , Wordsworth gives a new meaning or definition of poet and also poetry. In ‘Preface’ Wordsworth give a new theory of poetry.
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