In the 18th century the poetry was written in a elevated language and dealt with elevated themes.
Wordsworth thought the opposite, he thought that poetry had to be very simple, humble and had to deal with ordinary themes that concerned everybody, especially the rural class.
This is because he thought that the rural man was closer to the purest emotions.
The poetry had to be “a man among men” writing about mankind.
Man and nature: the nature is not described in a objective or descriptive way, but now the only things about nature that is described are the emotions that it inspires in men and it’s seen in a positive way by Wordsworth, he sees it as a source of happiness, joy and it teaches man to live.
Wordsworth thought that our personality built during childhood from both negative and positive experiences, the nature inspires the memory of the childhood and it’s the memory that gives power to the poetry.
Recollection in tranquillity: Wordsworth affirms that the poet has a better understandment of the nature, he can see through it. All the poetry takes origin from emotions recollected in tranquillity, so the poetry we read are memories from the past made in new emotions, so “kindred”.
Object, poet, sensory experience, emotion, memory = recollected in tranquility, kindred emotion, poem, reader, emotion
So the poet has the job to show men how to live, how to understand their feelings and improve themselves, and all of this can be done only if we adopt a ordinary life, a humble and rural life.

A certain colouring of imagination
- the romantic poets attack the poets that use an elaborate language because it is not clear; the elaborate language is not able to tell the feelings and the emotions.
- the poet is a men who speak to other men, and who have a different way of feel and a more sensible soul. The poet considers himself superior because he sees the event with an other spirit: e sees the reality and change it in something different; he use the language to create something not visible.
- the poet lives a sensory experience, then in tranquillity he recollect the emotion and write the poem.For Wordsworth the poetry is a “spontaneous overflow of feelings
- the humble people has purer emotion
- use of a lot of comparative to emphasize the concept

My heart leaps up
The title is because the poet leaps up for something that happened or he has seen. In the second verse he talks about a rainbow, but he doesn’t describe the rainbow but only the emotion that the rainbow inspires in him. (Rainbow in Bible alliance between God and men).
Child is father of man: innocence, imagination
Bound each to each by natural piety: nature is what brings joy and happiness in men

Solitary reaper
He admires a girl singing but don’t understand, he says that neither in arabian sand they can do such a beautiful song, she can talks about wars, pain, unhappiness, everyday problems but she sang very well and like there was no tomorrow.
Key words like melanchony, alone, silence, motionless are words that refer to Romanticism.
Most important word is behold, when he says behold he doesn’t mean only “seeing”, it’s more than just seeing something, it is feeling something, having emotion for having seen something beautiful like a rainbow in this case.