Flipped Learning: Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads

• What is the basic difference between the poetic creed of 'Classicism' and 'Romanticism'?
• Why does Wordsworth say 'What' is poet? rather than Who is poet?
• What is poetic diction? Which sort of poetic diction is suggested by Wordsworth in his Preface?
• What is poetry?
• Discuss 'Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud' with reference to Wordsworth's poetic creed. 
  
   
  
  
  1)The basic different between Classicism and Romanticism is that they are two ideologies, it's about techniques of writing.
  Classicism: intellect is the guiding force.
  Romanticism: imagination is the guiding source.
  so, both are very different from each other.
  
  2) Wordsworth talk  about What is poet. rather then who is poet. according to Wordsworth, "A poet is a man speaking to men, endowed with more lively sensibility" and he also say that the poet is such a human being who is overall in degree a far better human being than ordinary human being.
  
  3)  In his preface Wordsworth talk about poetic diction he says that the poetic diction is choice of word and he also suggested three principal in poetic diction:
              The language of poetry should be the language ‘really used by men’, but it should be a ‘selection’ of such language. Because the language which is used by the men, can’t take every word of it into poetry.
              It should be the language of men in a state of vivid sensation.it should have a certain coloring of imagination.
              There is no 'essential difference between the words used in prose and in metrical composition.
  
  4) 'Poetry', according to Wordsworth, 'is a breath and finer spirit of all knowledge the impassioned expression that is in the countenance of all science'. For all good poetry is the 'spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling'.
  
  5) 'Daffodils'one of the loveliest and famous in the Wordsworth creation, revisits the familiar subjects of nature and memory,  The speaker is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud—“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high...”, and the daffodils are continually personified as human beings, dancing and “tossing their heads” in “a crowd, a host.”  This technique implies an inherent unity between man and nature.