Poetry - Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads - 1802)

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What is important to Wordsworth to convey?
real subjects in real language
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What does it take to make the ordinary unusual?
imagination
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What is 'all good poetry'?
'the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'
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What does Wordsworth say is the PURPOSE of his poems?
'follow the fluxes and refluxes of the mind when agitated by the great and simple affections of our nature'
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What is formula of Wordsworth's poetry?
feeling gives importance to action and situation
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What should naturally determine what selection of language is used?
the passion
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What is the only thing that stands between a poet and 'the image of things'?
their obligation to give pleasure
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Metre can both tame the passion or put passion into the .....
language
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Where does poetry take its origin?
'emotion recollected in tranquillity'
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What is the process of the feeling?
tranquillity, tranquillity disappears, kindred emotion
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What are the three components of delight?
music from metre, difficulty overcome, blind association
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Wordsworth feels low, rural subjects have stronger, truer feelings because they are 'less under the influence of......'
social vanity
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What kind of stimulants does the human mind require in order to be stimulated?
subtle
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