ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -During the poetic process, the poet is possessed by powerful passions but he undergoes a period of emotions recollected in tranquility. During this process the influxes of feelings are modified and directed by thoughts. The direction of thought adds a depth of meaning and truth to poetry.

Detailed explanation-2: -He declares that “emotions recollected in tranquility” is an inexact formula. He points out that in the process of poetic composition, there is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor tranquility. In the poetic process, there is only concentration of a number of experiences. New thing results from this concentration.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth, in the key text of Romantic poetics, the preface to “Lyrical Ballads, ” from 1800, had urged that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings . . . recollected in tranquility.” (Which is nothing if not categorical-unproven and unprovable.

Detailed explanation-4: -Poetry is a “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquillity”. Lyrical Ballads is the most important poem collection since Renaissance and include the Preface, which is considered the Manifesto of Romantic Movement because it expresses Wordsworth’s aims.

Detailed explanation-5: -William Wordsworth believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions. By this quote, he implied that poetry comes out of emotions and inspiration.