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In the Preface, the poet contemplates emotion until 'by a species of reaction':
AThe poem writes itself
BThe tranquility gradually disappears
CMemory becomes vision
DThe reader feels what he felt
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. The tranquility gradually disappears
1. Wordsworth describes the dissolution of calm as the poetic state ignites.
2. The 'species of reaction' is the regeneration of feeling in art.
3. This staging refines the simpler 'spontaneous overflow' formula.
_Source: Project Gutenberg #8905 — Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) — "by a species of reaction the tranquility gradually disappears"_
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