If the poet truly writes about his emotions in human nature, how can his work, in its core, differ from any other material that also draws from men who feel as vividly as the poet does? In saying this, Wordsworth separates himself from the traditional language of poetry, which focused on decorum and archaism. He brings the poetic language near to the real language of the common men. Wordsworth summarizes his views by saying, “Whether the composition to be in prose or in verse, they require an exact one and the same language” (147). This is not to say that prose is the same thing as poetry; rather, he says formal differences cannot be counted as essential differences between poetry and
If the poet truly writes about his emotions in human nature, how can his work, in its core, differ from any other material that also draws from men who feel as vividly as the poet does? In saying this, Wordsworth separates himself from the traditional language of poetry, which focused on decorum and archaism. He brings the poetic language near to the real language of the common men. Wordsworth summarizes his views by saying, “Whether the composition to be in prose or in verse, they require an exact one and the same language” (147). This is not to say that prose is the same thing as poetry; rather, he says formal differences cannot be counted as essential differences between poetry and