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    The preface outlines the purpose and goals of Lyrical Ballads. It aims to capture ordinary and rustic life using common language to make the ordinary seem extraordinary. It argues that poetry conveys emotion and truth through spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected with tranquility. The language of poetry should imitate the language of men rather than use lofty, personified language. The preface also defends using prose elements in poems to more genuinely communicate meaning in a clearer way.

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    The preface outlines the purpose and goals of Lyrical Ballads. It aims to capture ordinary and rustic life using common language to make the ordinary seem extraordinary. It argues that poetry conveys emotion and truth through spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected with tranquility. The language of poetry should imitate the language of men rather than use lofty, personified language. The preface also defends using prose elements in poems to more genuinely communicate meaning in a clearer way.

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    The preface outlines the purpose and goals of Lyrical Ballads. It aims to capture ordinary and rustic life using common language to make the ordinary seem extraordinary. It argues that poetry conveys emotion and truth through spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected with tranquility. The language of poetry should imitate the language of men rather than use lofty, personified language. The preface also defends using prose elements in poems to more genuinely communicate meaning in a clearer way.

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    Chris GH

    Block 4
    2018.01.30

    Preface to Lyrical Ballads – outline

    1. Reception of first book


    a. Extremes of reactions were exacerbated
    b. Either strongly liked or strongly disliked
    c. More positive than expected
    2. Purpose of preface:
    a. Defend the ideas in the following poems
    b. Rejects this view - argumentation alienates reader
    3. Preface is still necessary:
    a. Poems are unique and need introduction
    b. Author must explain his role
    c. Should ascertain and perform duty of author
    4. Main goal of poems
    a. Relate events from everyday life/experience
    b. Humble and rustic life
    c. Use commonplace language
    d. imagination
    e. ordinary = extraordinary
    5. Still has a purpose
    a. Not just trivial/“mean”
    b. Triviality = bad
    c. Poems give importance to quotidian situations
    6. Poems = emotional
    a. Spontaneous overflow of feeling
    b. Feeling gives importance to action, not the other way around
    c. Shakespeare/Milton > German tragedies
    7. Style = “imitation of language of men”
    a. No personification of abstract ideas
    b. (Device to elevate style = bad)
    8. Prosaisms = not undesirable
    a. Widely criticized
    b. Normal poems = lots of useless lines
    c. Prose = clearer message
    d. Less flowery/poetic = more genuine
    e. Language of prose is good enough/better
    f. Best language for poetry is the language actually used
    9. Role of the poet
    a. Man speaking to men
    b. Endowed with greater knowledge of human nature
    c. Poetry = mechanical, not sublime
    d. Shadow of actual experience
    Chris GH
    Block 4
    2018.01.30

    10. Poetry requires pleasure


    a. Beauty of poetry creates pleasure
    b. Poetry communicates truth
    c. Truth is already present -> no need to seek/find it
    d. Poetic knowledge is the same as the experiential knowledge everyone has
    11. Poet is still a normal person
    a. Nothing different in kind of quality
    b. Just different degree of the same universal qualities
    c. Poets write for everyone, not just poets
    d. Reader is "at mercy of poet”
    12. Why in verse/poems, not prose?
    a. Charm is inherent in poetic meter
    b. Poetry imparts pleasure
    c. Pleasure = intrinsic part of art and poetry
    d. Purpose of poetry = excitement + overbalance of pleasure
    13. Poetry = spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
    a. Emotion recollected in tranquility
    b. Recollection imparts meaning/emotion to tranquil memories
    14. Reader should not listen to criticisms of others
    a. Judge poems for himself/herself
    b. Poetry = acquired taste

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