He defended by implying that the men speak communicates with other men for hours with the best “objects” where the “best part of language is derived” and hence they “convey their feelings and notions in simple and unelaborated expressions”. It not only refines the language but rejects the rational and logic elements which shows the clear rejection of Neo-Classical bombastic language and wits. He states that these moment of materials ensure a “plainer and more emphatic language” which become simple and the feelings “coexist” that ensure in more comprehensive and easy to communicate “because the manners of rural life germinate from those elementary feelings”. Moreover, he argues that the “language of men” is refined when the “humble and rustic” elements are used as a setting in the poem. The “real language of men” will enable the other men can relate “the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement”. He even stated that it will add a “certain colouring of imagination” on the readers so to evoke the ” state of excitement” which the common people share in their everyday lives. It is only possible for Wordsworth to impart these poetic themes in the poem only with the “real language of men”. In addition to this, the selection of such poetic diction to impart the “incidents and situations from common life”. He further adds that the selection of the common language can add “vivid sensation” and “pleasure” to the readers as each and every poem has its own “purpose” to share and evoke “pleasure” to the readers. He has selected it to communicate and connect it with the other men and common people. The poetic diction is the essay as suggested by Wordsworth applies the “real language of men”. Wordsworth defended his theory in the essay and hence the essay becomes the bible of the Romanticism.
The essay throws powerful insights into the Romantic notions of school of poetry and understand the main ideas and concepts behind it. “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” is an essay written by William Wordsworth which serves as an important piece of literary criticism.
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