Respond in 3-5 sentences and make sure your answers are written in complete sentences.

William Wordsworth once explained the focus of his poems in Lurical Ballads by saying this: "the principle object, then, proposed in these Poems was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a selection of language really used by men." Explain the significance if this quote and describe how it relates to the characteristics of lyrical poetry, including it's different forms, such as odes.