William Wordsworth was an English romantic poet, who helped
launch the romantic poetry era, along with his counterpart
Samuel Coleridge. In his “Preface to Romantic Ballads,”
Wordsworth provides his audience of an understanding of his
style of poetry. In fact he strays away from the complex,
verbose and mind-boggling poetry presented before his time,
ascribing to the statement written by David Thoreau in “Walden”,
“Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity!” Even though Thoreau is
speaking in a completely different context, the statement he
makes provides to understand what Wordsworth is advocating.
Wordsworth claims that there is certain simplicity to poetry, it
shouldn’t contain over arching themes and incomprehensible ideas
that can be ascertained by a full analysis of the poem itself.
He ascribes to a completely different principle, the idea of
words holding a direct meaning, linking to the natural elements
that support maturity and growth, and maintaining a central and
comprehensible thought. In the beginning o