Coleridge's theory of imagination

Coleridge's theory of imagination

1. Coleridge's Theory Of Imagination SOLANKI CHIRAGKUMAR K MA SEM : 2 ROLL NUM : 3 Enrollment No : 2069108420180049 BANCH : 2017-19 Submitted To : Department Of English, MKBU

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21th October 1772. He was an English poet, Literary C ritic and Philosopher . His literary movement was Romanticism Coleridge and William Wordsworth was the founder of the Romantic Movement in England. His major prose work is Biographia Literaria.   1772-1834

3. INTRODUCTION Imagination is the basic and most important creative faculty in a poet and impossible to write a poem without an imagination Threw imagination a poet observes different forms and objects in human life and their nature. So it can be defined more beautifully. With the help of imagination it melts and spread into a “Sweet Solution”. So it is called “Shaping and unifying power”.

4. Coleridge imagination was responsible for acts that were truly creative and inventive. The imagination, on the other hand, was vital and transformative. Imagination described the “mysterious power” which extracted from such data, hidden ideas and meaning. Coleridge has divided Imagination in two Major forms: The first one is Primary Imagination and second one is Secondary Imagination.

5.   Imagination

6.   Primary Imagination It is natural form of imagination and it focuses on the basic criteria of the imagination. It is used only one sense and that is the sense of perception This form basically observes the activity of person. It is very much near to the world of reality .

7. It is the common faculty of every human being. This form of imagination is also observes the real forms of persons, places, things and subject of nature. And then Primary imagination combines them in one form 

8. SECONDARY IMAGINATION It is a conscious form of imagination.  it is faculty of the soul, using all faculties like perception, intellect with emotions and spirituality. Secondary imagination works on the all types minor and major aspects of imagination. It directly in touch with the soul of imagination that is why it is more active and more comprehensive faculty than the primary imagination.

9. It helps understanding the unity of universal, like good, truth, moral When the secondary imagination is rising up in the mind, in its process of shaping and modifying, the mind and nature used to act against each other. Secondary imagination selects and orders the raw material and reshapes and remodels it into objects of beauty.