ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth defines a poet in the following lines: He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness, who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul, than are supposed to common among mankind.

Detailed explanation-2: -Wordsworth also gives his famous definition of poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility", and calls his own poems in the book “experimental".

Detailed explanation-3: -This way, the effects of the painful experiences become bearable. Pathetic scenes in Shakespeare use meter effectively to mingle pleasure with pain and mitigate the painful effects of such dismal settings. Necessary emotional excitement is imparted by the use of meter.