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Nature & Childhood
Wordsworth's romantic style of poetry concentrates deeply on nature, personification and childhood, where in his poems he uses a simplistic language speaking directly to the common man. His emphasis on simplicity of the poetic language in the Prelude, came from the fact that he believed that the everyday hard working man needed to be able to understand his poetry, because that is who he was speaking to through his poetry. He also needed to have is own style, and the neoclassical poets who came before him were writing in a pompous and difficult to understand language, because their poetry was speaking to the well off, upper class individuals. In the Prelude Wordsworth described ordinary things with extraordinary detail, so that man could clearly see the lyrical picture he was painting. Experiences of his childhood are extremely significant to Wordsworth as an adult. Throughout the Prelude he writes on...
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