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To make poetry life like, he wants to use the language of common people as
the common people express their feeling unfeignedly. But he tells about a
selection, because common people use gross and unrefined language. So, he
will purify the language of rustic people until it is ready for use.
T. S. Eliot, in his The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism, objects to
Wordsworths view. Eliot tells that a poet should not imitate the language of a
particular class because he ought to have a language of his own. Eliots view
gains ground as Wordsworth in his later poems, fails to use his prescribed
language. His diction is, in fact peculiar to him.
Wordsworth differs with the neo-classical writers in his belief about the
process of poetry. The neo-classical writers think that the poets mind is a
sensitive but passive recorder of a natural phenomenon. But Wordsworth
strongly opposes this view and thinks that the mind of the poet is never a
passive recorder. In his view, the poets mind half creates the external world
which he perceives. The external world is thus, in some degree, the very
creation of human mind. Wordsworth seems to establish the fact that the
poets mind and the external nature are both interlinked and interdependent.
Wordsworth unlike the classicists can not separate the mind which suffers
from the mind which composes.
Wordsworth breaks with the classical theory of poetry when he advocates for
the intensity of emotion. To him, reason is not at all important. This is a
subjective view.