Wordsworth writes: “For all poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (295). Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that early writings were impersonal and detached from the common audience. Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that the upper class was unpleasant due to the fact that the aristocracy valued personal pleasure and material objects. Wordsworth wrote that a poet "illustrates the way in which our feelings and ideas are associated in a state of excitement" (296). They felt that a poet writes in the moment of true emotion and passion. "The emotion collected in tranquility" is the basis of every poem because it reflects the overflow of feelings that nature, or a memory, arouses in the heart of an individual. The difference between a romantic poet and a neoclassical poet is that there is no long and deep period of thought. Neoclassical artists wrote from a technical point of view in which they wrote deeply and mechanically from satire. Wordsworth and Coleridge both state that being able to compose in the moment of "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" reflects the poet's authentic emotions, as well as creating an original piece of