Wordsworth writes: “For all poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (295). Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that earlier writings were impersonal and detached from the general public. Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that the upper class was unpleasant due to the aristocracy valuing personal pleasure and material objects. Wordsworth wrote that a poet “illustrates the manner in which our feelings and ideas are associated in a state of excitement” (296). They believed that a poet writes in a moment of true emotion and passion. “Emotion collected in tranquility” is the basis of all poetry because it reflects the overflow of feelings that nature, or a memory, provokes in the heart of an individual. The difference between a romantic poet and a neoclassical poet is that there is no period of long, deep reflection. Neoclassical artists wrote from a technical point of view in which they wrote deeply and mechanically from satire. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge express that being able to compose at the moment of the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" reflects the poet's authentic emotions and creates an original piece of