Central idea of the poem lines writing in the early spring
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Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth
In 1798, William Wordsworth, poet to Lines Written in Early Spring, was to publish a volume of poetry known as ‘Lyrical Ballads’ with his then-friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In 1802, they published this volume again, this time with a preface written by William Wordsworth himself, wherein he attempted to explain the reasoning for writing his poetry. He wrote, ‘what is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men’, a movement away from idealized notion of the poet having some higher aim in life and some God-ordained talent to write to educate others.
Lyrical Ballads was received well, and the reviews mostly erred on the side of positive, but it was only in the later years that Lyrical Ballads reached the acclaim of being the first published volume in the changing face of British literature and the herald to English Romanticism.
In the preface to the 1802 Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth wrote: The principal object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing in them, truly though not ostentatiously, the primary laws of our nature: chiefly, as far as regards the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement