The difference between classicism and romanticism is quite clear that Romantic were not strictly following the rules and regulation set by the classicist. Classicist were believing in controlled , restricted emotions. Whereas according to the Romantic it should be spontaneous. Whatever you feel express that freely. One more thing is that classicist were writing with the theme of the city life people. But Romantic were writing on the life of the rural people, their emotion, feeling.
Wordsworth says that what is poet . because he wanted to emphasis that which are the qualities which makes him poet. Any one cannot be poet, he differs from the other people in their emotive capacity. Poet has that sense which makes him greater than OTHERS. We all experience something, but fails to express it in poetic way, but poet can do that. So he says that what is poet rather than who is poet. He wanted to emphasis that thus poet differs from common people .
Wordsworth believed that simple language can also be the language of poetry. no need of highly crafted one. It should be the language really used by men. Rural people are more innocent, close to nature so their language should be language of poetry.
According to him, poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling recollected in tranquility, means first you go in nature, enjoy it, then come back , now in leisure time remember all what you have experienced. Then sit and write. Now whatever you have written that is truly poetry.
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