Coleridge views on imagination
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the main literary figures in the romantic period. He is famous for his most important work the Biographia Literaria. it was one of Coleridge's main critical works. Coleridge discussed the elements of writing poetry in this work. the work is written with the qualities and rhythm of the poetic. through this discussion, he makes many valuable judgments for the audience to understand certain issues. some of the issues he tackles include politics, religious social values, and human identity. he expresses his own thoughts from a personal viewpoint.
imagination
imagination is a quality that enables you to see something special in ordinary things. the imaginative process sometimes adds additional properties to an object or sometimes abstracts from some of its properties. thus imagination transforms the object into something new. it modifies and even creates new objects.
imagination is the power or act of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses human in real Or never before wholly perceived in reality.
the ability or power to form mental images of things that do not feel able to the senses or not considered to be real or not seen in reality.
according to Coleridge imagination has two types one primary imagination two secondary imagination
1. primary imagination – it is the living power and prime agent of all human perception. it is a spontaneous act of the human mind. the image formed of the outer world unconsciously and involuntarily. it is universal and is possessed by all.
2. secondary imagination - secondary imagination which makes any artistic creation and root of all poetic activity. it's considered as shaping and modifying power. Coleridge calls secondary imagination a magical power. it fuses various Faculty of the human soul, will, emotion, intellect, perception.
the difference between both is one of degree. the secondary imagination is more active more conscious than the primary one. The primary imagination is universal while the secondary is a peculiar privilege enjoyed by the artist.
The distinction between fancy and the imagination
fancy - Coleridge regards fancy to be inferior to the imagination. according to Coleridge, it is creative power. it combines different things into different shapes, not like imagination. according to him, it is a process of bringing together images dissimilar in the man by source.
the destination made by Coleridge between fancy and the imagination fancy was concerned with the mechanical operations of the mind. on the other hand imagination is described as a mysterious power. imagination creates new shapes and forms of beauty by fusing the different Impressions from the external world. fancy is a kind of memory. it randomly brings together images and even when brought together they continue to retain their separate individual properties.
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