His aim with these poems was to talk about situations in common life, that is why he chose to communicate with an easy language as well as he preferred rural life as, this, was part of his idea that nature surroundings are the ideal place where man could find himself and his essence, and because in this rural environment these passions could be framed in the beautiful Nature. “What’s a poet? He is a man speaking to men. As he expresses in his preface to the third edition: He talks about writing poetry for men in the language of men. In this preface Wordsworth attempts to explain the poems contained as experiments in which the use of language is different from the classic poems and the complexity and highness of it. In the edition of 1802 Wordsworth wrote a preface as well as some more poems were included. A second edition was published in 1800 under Wordsworth name which supposed a problem between both authors which threw them apart for a while. This poem is a ballad which is included in the collection named Lyrical Ballads, a volume published in 1798 along with Coleridge, who had become his friend, although this volume neither had Coleridge’s nor Wordsworth’s name as authors. The budding twigs spread out their fan, D Through primrose tufts, in that green bower, E In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts A
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