Being consistent with Romanticism, I don't think that
there is a specific and dogmatic definition of poetry. Wordsworth and the other
Romantic thinkers offer a basic template of what poetry should consist of or how it
should originate, and from there, the definition
begins:
[Poetry should reflect] incidents and situations
from common life...[D]escribe [those incidents] […] in a selection of language really
used by men.
The basic idea
is here that poetry should reflect "the spontaneous overflow of emotions." With this,
the basic Romantic definition of poetry takes form. It enables the poet to focus on
subjective and personal experiences as well as connecting with the natural setting and
the narratives that can be externalized into a universal setting. Due to its highly
subjective and personal nature, the definition of poetry is not a binding one or one
that excludes because the nature of Romantic inquiry is one that does not seek to
exclude as much as it seeks to include, so long as poetic expression follows the basic
tenet of being subjective and individualized and seeks to bring the subjective into the
realm of the universal through connection between the poet and the
audience.
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