Question

. How does Wordsworth describe the language he claims to have selected for his poems? How does he describe the language used by "many modern writers"?

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At the simplest level, Wordsworth is just criticizing neoclassical poets who describe fish as the "finny tribe." But more important is the fact that Wordsworth attaches great cultural value to his own alternative poetics. I'll leave the defining to you, but I will say that Wordsworth claims his selection of language is more closely connected to "the primary laws of our nature." In a way, Wordsworth's poet uses language as "passions methodized." He selects language that is linked to passions; so he is in effect penetrating and ordering (though not thereby diminishing the power or role of) the primary passions, the primary emotional laws, of all humankind.

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