Coleridge's theory of imagination

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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. z Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on
21th October 1772.
 He was an English poet, Literary Critic 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. z 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”.

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 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.

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Imagination

6. z 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.

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 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. z 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.

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 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.