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Wordsworth chose 'low and rustic life' as poetic subject because:
ARural language was easier to rhyme
BUrban life had been exhausted by predecessors
CHe could not afford to travel
DThe essential passions of the heart find a better soil there
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. The essential passions of the heart find a better soil there
1. He argues rural passions are 'less under restraint.'
2. They 'speak a plainer and more emphatic language.'
3. The choice is a polemic against neo-classical 'poetic diction.'
_Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "low and rustic life ... essential passions of the heart find a better soil"_
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