Wordsworth's Poetic Diction

Poetic diction is a selection of language.

Wordsworth has suggested about poetic diction that;
A. Language of poetry should be the language of a common man.
B. It should have a certain colouring of imagination.
C. The words of conversation would provide the rough framework of the language of poetry. 

According to Wordsworth,

'the poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge, the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science.' 

He also says that poetry 'is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.' Which being possesed by a man who, of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply. 

'Daffodils' is a best example of Wordsworth's simple poetry style. 

I wandered lonely as a cloud 

That floats on high o'er vales and hills, 

When all at once I saw a crowd, 

A host, of golden daffodils; 

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, 

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. 

Continuous as the stars that shine 

And twinkle on the milky way, 

They stretched in never-ending line 

Along the margin of a bay: 

Ten thousand saw I at a glance, 

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. 

The waves beside them danced; but they 

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: 

A poet could not but be gay, 

In such a jocund company: 

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought 

What wealth the show to me had brought: 

For oft, when on my couch I lie 

In vacant or in pensive mood, 

They flash upon that inward eye 

Which is the bliss of solitude; 

And then my heart with pleasure fills, 

And dances with the daffodils. 

- He has written this poem with more imagination of his own time.
- By this poem he has told what is poetry.
- He has defined spontanity and tranquility by this poem.
- He has observed nature a lot in first three stanza being a cloud that is spontanity and at last he expressed these all experiences in last stanza that is tranquility.
- So Wordsworth has given a definition of poetry by this poem. 

 “For all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.

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  “A Poet is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endowed with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness.” - . Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.