Question

Which of the following express Wordsworth's central aims in composing his poetry? Select all that apply.

1.To avoid using figurative language
2.To use clear and vivid diction
3.To write about everyday events and circumstances
4.To hold up a mirror to nature

Answer 1

2. To use clear and vivid diction

William Wordsworth wanted that the poetry speaks to everyone, and, considering that the normal men do not speak using an elevated vocabulary, he wanted to use and adhere to poetic diction to achieve this purpose using a clear and vivid diction.

3.To write about everyday events and circumstances

For there option there is a clear explanation in one of the preface included in the publication of his poem “The principal object, then, which I proposed to myself 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 colouring of imagination”, here we can find more clear his purpose on writing poetry he directed his poetry for the common men supporting with this his selection of event and diction as well.

Answer 2

• To use clear and vivid diction.
• To write about everyday events and circumstances.

William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet who helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of Lyrical Ballads (1798), in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Wordsworth's most famous work is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi-autobiographical poem. Wordsworth was Britain's poet laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.