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           Introduction Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet, philosopher, and literary critic whose writing have been enormously influential in the development of modern thought. He is greater than great and a genius of his poetic work as we can look in his poems and by that feeling of nature, romance preciousness we feel. Coleridge was also known to many English readers as a talented prose writer, especially as the author of the Biographia Literaria.  Difference between Prose and Poetry Coleridge poses numerous questions regarding the nature and function of poetry and then answers them. He also examines the way in which poetry differs from other kinds of artistic activity, and the role and significance of metre as an essential and significant part of the poem. He begins by emphasising the difference between prose and poetry. " A poem contains the same elements as a prose composition ". Both use words. Then, the difference between poem and...

          Introduction Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a great poet, but he is also a great critic. He is one of the greatest of poet critics that England has never produced. He was a genius and when he inspired, and when the mood was upon him, he could create works of the highest order, but he was incapable of sustained and persistent labour. Stray's remarks on literature and literary theory stated all over his prose works as, The Friend, Table Talks, Letters, Aids to Reflections, Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, Animal Poteau and Simblline Leaves. But the bulk of his literary criticism, all that is most worthwhile in it is contained in his 1. Biographia Literaria and 2. Lectures on Shakespeare and other poets. Activity of the 'poet's' mind, and a 'poem' is merely one of the forms of us expression a verbal expression of that activity, and poetic activity is basically an activity of the imagination. As David Daiches points out 'Poetry' for Colerid...

It is a movement that make dominance in 1960s and included great thinkers like Jacques Derrida and Paul De Man . Deconstruction is a way of understanding how something was created, usually things like art, books, poems and other writings. The deconstructionist were very much interested questioning the certain thing and structure of text. Deconstruction is breaking something down into smaller parts. Deconstruction looks at the smaller parts that were used to create an object. The smaller parts are usually ideas. Sometimes deconstruction looks at how an author can imply things he does not mean. It says that because words are not precise, we can never know what an author meant. Sometimes deconstruction looks at the things the author did not say because he made assumptions. One thing it pays attention to is how opposites work. It says that two opposites like "good" and "bad" are not really different things. "Good" only makes sense when someone compare it t...

The classical Epic is an exhaustive narration of a great events in history, told not only in an omniscient narrator voice but also in the words of its characters. The classical epic writers are Homer in Greek and Virgil in Roman. These are long stories in verse with famous heroes as principle characters. They are based on the legends of their exploits handed down from generation to generation orally. There is a mixing of actual history and the poets imagination in them. Gods form a separate group of characters in almost every classical epic. They preside over the destinies of human beings. The language of classical epics is noble and exalted. The theme is stated in the first few lines accompanied by a prayer to the Muse. The protagonist of a classical epic are larger-than- life men who are capable of great deeds of strength and courage. The style is marked by repetition, a pronounced use of epithets and using a variety of names for the main characters. Fully developed  similes ar...

          Introduction Coleridge gave much thought to the imagination. He considers poetry the product of the secondary imagination. The secondary imagination dissolves, diffuses and dissipates in order to recreate; it struggles to idealize and unify.  The two Cardinal Points of poetry according to Coleridge are:  1. The power of exciting the sympathy of the reader by faithful adherence to the truth of nature.  2. The power of giving the interest of novelty by the modifying colors of Imagination.  Imagination in its real sense denotes the working of poetic minds upon external objects or objects visible to eyes. Imaginative process sometimes adds additional properties to an object or sometimes abstract from it some of its properties. Therefore imagination thus transformers the object into something new. It modifies and even creates new objects. According to the Coleridge imagination has two types - Primary Imagination and Seconda...