Wordsworth said a poet is someone with a soft heart and strong imagination A real poet sees beauty in simple things He feels more than others and shares this feeling through poetry Closer to Common People Neo-classical poets often wrote about kings nobles and city life Their language was also hard and decorative Wordsworth did not like this He believed a true poet should write about simple people and nature The poet believes that the language of poetry is the language of ordinary men as he says The poet thinks and feels in the spirit of human passions How then can his language differ in any material degree from that of all other men who feel vividly and see clearly In conclusion Wordsworth's idea of a poet was new and different He did not follow the old rules of the Neo-classicists He thought a poet should feel deeply He also should live simply and write clearly His goal was to bring poetry close to real life