The language of his poetry is near to that of prose. Wordsworth avoids the use of personifications of abstract ideas and serious diction in his poems so far as possible for making poetry intelligible to all types of readers.
It is the poet’s business to embody in their poetry the general passions of men. Wordsworth defines poetry as the spontaneous overflow of the powerful feelings. Poetry should express common human feelings and there should be no restriction in the expression of the experiences of the senses and sensibilities. The language of the rustics, according to William Wordsworth is more philosophical and permanent than the language used by the city dwellers and the earlier poets. Their language is more passionate, more vivid and more emphatic. The rustic people express their feelings and emotion through simple, unelaborated and unsophisticated way. Wordsworth comments that humble and rustic life holds simplicity, serenity and tranquility. Wordsworth says that in Lyrical Ballads, humble and rustic life has been chosen as the theme of poetry because the essential passions of the heart find a better soul in which they can attain their maturity in the humble state of life. But the villagers are very simple and free from social vanity. Therefore, they don’t express the reality of human life. People living in the modern cities are very much artificial and far away from the simplicity of nature.
For the first time he democratizes poetry and gives a universal appeal to it. In the past this ordinary life of the ordinary people has never been a subject of poetry. He describes them by selection of language really used by men.
He describes them by selection of incidents and situations of common life. William Wordsworth says that he has selected incidents and situations of common life.
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