Concetti Chiave
- Wordsworth emphasizes a new poetry concept focusing on nature, common life, simple language, emotions, and imagination.
- Romantic poets criticize elaborate language, arguing it fails to convey true feelings and emotions effectively.
- The poet, seen as a man with a sensitive soul, transforms reality through imagination, creating an unseen world.
- Wordsworth describes poetry as a "spontaneous overflow of feelings," born from sensory experiences recollected in tranquility.
- Nature plays a central role in Wordsworth's poetry, contrasting with urban life and serving as a fountain of emotions.
A certain colouring of imagination
This text is taken from the Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, regarded as the Manifesto of English Romanticism.Wordsworth expresses a new concept of poetry which emphasizes the importance of nature, common life, simple language, and emotions and imagination.
- Simple life is still the subject of poetry, as before, but now imagination changes the narration.
- Romantic poets criticize those who use elaborate language, because it is unclear and unable to express real feelings and emotions.
- The poet is a man who speaks to other men and has a different way of feeling and a more sensitive soul (more soul).
The poet considers himself superior because he sees events with a different spirit: he observes reality and transforms it into something else, using language to create something invisible.
The poet lives a sensory experience, then in tranquility recollects the emotion and writes the poem.
For Wordsworth, poetry is a “spontaneous overflow of feelings.”
Nature
Nature is the most important theme in Wordsworth’s poetry and has various meanings:- It is the opposite of the town;
- It is a source of emotions.
Imagination
The poet uses imagination to transform experience.
Poetry
- Has a different way of feeling;
- Sees reality and transforms it through imagination;
- Has the ability to evoke passion in himself.
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