Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.

Coleridge's Biographia Literaria - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

                        Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 - 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the romantic movement in England and a member of the lake poets. he wrote the poems the rime of the ancient mariner and "Kubla khan", as well as the major prose work Biographia literaria. his critical work, especially on William Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English- speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. he had a major influence on ralph Waldo Emerson and on American transcendentalism. 

Q-1) Write in your words the difference between poem and prose.

Ans:- it is differentiate between poem and prose. we can see that metre or rhyme or both is used in a poem. but they are not used in prose composition. Poem's purpose is the communication of pleasure.But prose's purpose is the communication of truth . A poem must be an organic unity. But a poem can not please us if there is no organic unity.The main aim of poetry is to give pleasure.The language of poem is highly ornamental and complexity of words. While in the prose, the language is very simple and we do not find a use of rhyme and meter like poem. Prose has natural form of writing . It is very simple. In poem, it has structured form and also it is decorated by the poet. Poetry express ideas and feelings in few words which are more attractive and prose express ideas and feelings with lots of words. And sometimes , they are not more attractive as poetry has.

Q-2) Write in your words the difference between poem and poetry.

 Ans:- both of them use words. so there is no difference between a poem and a prose composition. in this respect, Coleridge says -" a poem contains the same elements as a prose composition." but one difference is to be noticed here. metre or rhyme or both is used in a poem. but they are not used in prose composition.

      One is a specific instance of the other.Means Poem is a specific instance of poetry.Poetry is a kind of tree and poem is one branch of these tree. It's all depended on imagination.

 

*IMAGINATION : 'CREATING AND RECREATING KNOWN AND SEEN IMAGES.'

There are two types of imagination.

1] primary imagination 

⇝ Uniting the objects of sense. 

2] secondary imagination 

⇝ Unifying the objects of sense with emotions and feelings.

 POETRY IS : 

-Distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself, which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotions of the poet's own mind,

-The best words in their best order ,

-Activity of poets mind 

- eg. 1] Steve jobs -I PHONE 

        2] RIGHT BROTHER,S AIRPLANE 

Both things are apt for example of poetry.Poetry is imagination of poet in which he added something and harmonies it.  

          

 poem:

-is merely one of the forms of poet's  expression

Poem is only imagination of post.

Ordinary poets can only wrote poems by their primary imaginations,whereas extra ordinary poets can write poetry and there for they need secondary imagination.And it is necessary in them. 

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