LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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a radical break with 18th-century rules on elevated diction.
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a continuity with poets such as Alexander Pope.
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a rejection of nature in favor of society.
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a defense of the use of elaborate figurative language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Wordsworth, poetry, which should be written in “the real language of men, ” is nevertheless “the spontaneous overflow of feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth proposed that a “language near to the language of men” was as appropriate for poetry as it was for prose. This idea was very influential, though more in theory than practice: a special “poetic” vocabulary and mode of metaphor persisted in 19th century poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth says that the language of prose can be used in poetry. There is no essential difference between the language of prose and that of metrical composition. Rather he asserts that there is a perfect affinity between metrical composition and prose composition.