text: In it , Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry , one based on the `` real language of men '' and which avoids the poetic diction of much 18th-century poetry .
simplified: In it , Wordsworth discusses what he sees as the elements of a new type of poetry , one based on the `` real language of men '' and which avoids the poetic diction of much eighteenth-century poetry .