Under what one restriction does a poet write?

 

Ans. According to Wordsworth, poets write poems to give immediate pleasure to his readers. A poet must give pleasure to his readers by his poems. In order to enjoy the pleasure of poetry, a reader does not need the knowledge of a specialist. The reader is not expected to posses the kind of knowledge which a lawyer or a physician or a sailor or an astronomer or a natural philosopher possesses. A human being, possessing ordinary knowledge which any man is expected to have is capable of enjoying poetry because the poet does not write for specialists. In other words, a reader need not possess any specialist knowledge in order to derive pleasure from poetry. Thus, the poet writes under one restriction only, that is, the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to his readers without possessing specialised knowledge.