coleridge's view on poem,prose and poetry

1. Topic : Coleridge’s View on poem ,prose and
poetry
Name : Divya d Vaghela
Course : M.A (sem – 1)
Batch : 2018-20
Roll No : 08
Enrollment No : 2069108420190044
Email Id : vaghela.divya230@gmail.com
Paper No : 3 Theory & criticism
Submitted to : MKBU Department of English.

2. About Coleridge.........
 An English poet (1772-
1834 )
 Romantic poet
 Leader of British
Romantic Movement
 Best known Poem :
I. Kubla khan
II. The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner.

3. “ According to coleridge , the immediate purpose
of a poem is to give pleasure to the reader and
another thing is that everything else in the
poem is supposed to be secondary it means
coleridge’s prime aim is reader’’
 Poem is that species of composition.

4.  “ poetry is the product of imagination working
on the object’s of life and nature. It is an activity
of imagination ,Idealizing the real and realising
the ideal..........But words arranged in the pattern
of rhyme alone would not make poetry’’
 Poetry is organic, not mechanical.

5.  Form of Language
 Exhibits a natural flow of speech
 Grammatical structure
 Based on metre or rhyme
 Continuous piece of writing
 Use sentence and paragraph
 sounds like ordinary speech
 May or may not be creative

6.  Smaller than poetry
 Gives pleasure
 limited words
 Language is
Rhythmatical
 Best words in best order
 Contains the elements as
a prose composition
 ideas are written in lines
 Merely one of the form of
expression.
 Wider than poem.
 Gives aesthetic delight
 longer than poem
 Activity of poets mind
 Something higher than
poem
 Important as life itself
 Art for the life sake