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Posted: 09 Aug 2013

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A Barn

A Barn
An eternal charm seems to emanate from these places forgotten by the time.
May be the Photography refines senses and gives the ability to see the world through new eyes.

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Wordsworth’s contribution to English poetry has been widely recognized. . . One of Wordsworth’s contributions to the adventure of English is that, in the preface to his ‘Lyrical Ballads’ www.gutenberg.org/files/9622/9622-h/9622-h.htm in 1798, he stressed that poetry could be written in “the language really used by men” and did not need a special poetic diction or an elaborate vocabulary or any other “fine clothes” to express deep feelings. /// “He also chose to write about the rural life which had surrounded his childhood, a childhood passed, geographically, not very far from that of Burns. But it was an different world. Unlike burns, Wordsworth went to an excellent grammar school and boarded; from there he went to Cambridge, took a walking tour in France and Switzerland, enjoyed advantages available to very few. Perhaps even more remarkable, then, that reimmersing himself in the daily life in the Lake District, he should find his main subject-matter in “low and rustic life.” He explained why: “because in that condition the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak a plainer, more explicitly language; because in that condition of life our elementary feelings exist in a state of greater simplicity, and, consequently may be more accurately contemplated.” ~ Page 215
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