He says that as if writing poetry is a habit in him. Wordsworth meant by spontaneous that it is not predetermined or preconceived. Thus, the poet could not suspend the moment of composition just like a woman delivering a baby, the poet could not suspend delivering a poem. Wordsworth says: 'Poetry is spontaneous but only at the moment of composition.' However, the poetic experience on which he gives the theory must have existed in the mind of the poet long before the moment of composition. Explaining what Wordsworth said, the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquility gradually disappears and an emotion similar to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind. Although poetry is spontaneous, this does not mean that Wordsworth does not think of it at all. In defining poetry, Wordsworth says:'Poetry is the spontaneous over flow of powerful feelings it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.' In this quotation, Wordsworth is not in need of external motives to teach the audience.

Wordsworth's poetry is the outcome of the exchange between the mind of the poet and nature. He was for ever spiritualising the mads of Nature and winning from them moral consolation.

Wordsworth's aim was, as a poet, to seek for beauty in meadow, wood land, and mountain-top, and to interpret this beauty in spiritual terms.

The reputation of Wordsworth as a poet has always been touched by ambiguity.

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth