Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 17: Function of poetry. Wordsworth found some meaning in human life,if human beings lived in close proximity to nature and allowed it would begin its influence to sink into their thought that oral elevation and spiritual edification of man was not possible in the humdrum life of towns and cities. | FUNCTION OF POETRY Wordsworth found some meaning in human life,if human beings lived in close proximity to nature and allowed it would begin its influence to sink into their thought that oral elevation and spiritual edification of man was not possible in the humdrum life of towns and cities. Rustic people lead a life of primal simplicity in constant communication with nature. He decided to deal with the lives of cadgers and rustic instead of politicians and statesmen stupefied with victory and in toxified with glory and refuses to glorify lives of kings and princes and men belonging to higher strata of society,because in their lives he found an artificiality that he despised. He chose rustic life for poetic treatment in that condition of life”essential passion of the heart finds a better soil”. He showed much independence of mind as reflecting the traditional subjects derived by his predecessors fro the fashionable social life. By his own temperament he was prone to . | FUNCTION OF POETRY Wordsworth found some meaning in human life,if human beings lived in close proximity to nature and allowed it would begin its influence to sink into their thought that oral elevation and spiritual edification of man was not possible in the humdrum life of towns and cities. Rustic people lead a life of primal simplicity in constant communication with nature. He decided to deal with the lives of cadgers and rustic instead of politicians and statesmen stupefied with victory and in toxified with glory and refuses to glorify lives of kings and princes and men belonging to higher strata of society,because in their lives he found an artificiality that he despised. He chose rustic life for poetic treatment in that condition of life”essential passion of the heart finds a better soil”. He showed much independence of mind as reflecting the traditional subjects derived by his predecessors fro the fashionable social life. By his own temperament he was prone to be attracted by things of elemental simplicity and necessary Corollary to the choice of subjects from the low rural life,he decided to use the language of common people as the vehicle of poetic expression rejecting the artificial diction of the 18th century. Wordsworth rejected the “guardian and insane phraseology of many modern writers”.He insists that his poems contain little poetic diction and are written in a “selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation”, Wordsworth defined the employment of meter in poetry as a protest against the use of poetic diction”whereas in the matter of poetic diction,Wordsworth breaks with the orthodox convention of his days and return to the natural diction of normal men. In te matter of meter he appeals to the tradition. The concurring testimony of the ages he says has established the laws of meter and all reasonable people submit to them and acknowledge them as superadded charm. Wordsworth says that in his poems he has dealt with
