Read the prompt.

Write an analytical essay explaining how three romantic poems connect to William Wordsworth's ideas about poetry.

Based on this prompt, which ideas would be most appropriate for leaving the reader with something to think about?

Check all that apply.

1. a short list of other Romantic poets who wrote during Wordsworth's era.

2. a relevant fact about Wordsworth that reinforces the essay's overall thesis.

3. a comment about which poem seems to best capture Wordsworth's ideas.

4. a few important facts about Wordsworth's life and accomplishments.

5. a relevant quotation by Wordsworth that reflects his ideas about poetry.

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

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