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Additionally, the Romantic movement marked a shift in the use of language.

Attempting to express the " language of the common man ", Wordsworth and his fellow Romantic poets focused on employing poetic language for a wider audience, countering the mimetic, tightly constrained Neo-Classic poems ( although it's important to note that the poet wrote first and foremost for his / her own creative, expression ).

In Shelley's " Defense of Poetry ", he contends that poets are the " creators of language " and that the poet's job is to refresh language for their society.