was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men, and, at the same time, to throw over them a certain colouring of imagination, whereby ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual aspect; and, further, and above all, to make these incidents and situations interesting by tracing the manner in which we associate ideas in a state of excitement.
Dr. Burton has experimented with the form of his own poems, and here's the result on his blog.
Lines written in early spring--Lyrical Ballads on Prezi
I made a prezi out of one of the poems from Lyrical Ballads, and I think it helped to achieve what Wordsworth and Coleridge stated as their goal in the preface. The words are commonly used by men, but I used my imagination to arrange the presentation, thereby presenting the poem itself in an unusual fashion.
That was a neat way to present the poem! Another idea in future would be to use pictures to help illustrate it as well but I like what you did. It adds to the poem and is a whole new art form in itself. :)
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