This document summarizes a paper submitted by Gausvami surbhi A. to Dr. Dilip Barad at Bhavnagar University about Samuel Taylor Coleridge's views on the nature and function of poetry. It discusses that Coleridge was a poet, critic, and philosopher who elaborated on his perspective in "Biographia Literaria". According to Coleridge, poetry aims to provide pleasure through an organic relationship between rhyme, meter, and the overall composition, with all elements harmonizing to increase the pleasure of the whole work. Additionally, the document contrasts Coleridge's views with definitions of poetry from other poets such as Macaulay, Wordsworth, Johnson, and Shelley.

1. ➢ Name: Gausvami surbhi A.
➢ Paper: 3
➢ Subject: “Nature and function of the poem according to
colridge”
➢ Batch year: 2016-18
➢ Roll no: 32
➢ Enrollment no: 2069108420170008
➢ Submited to: Dr. Dilip Barad
➢ Bhavnagar University

3. ➢Samuel colridge was literary poet, critic and
philosopher.
➢ Colridge's view of poetry has been
elaborated in “the biographia literaria”.
➢ He poses a number of questions regarding
the nature and function of poetry and then
answers them.

4. ➢ Colridge starts his disscution with the differense
between prose and poem
➢ The differense between poem and prose
cannot lie in the medium, for each employs the
same medium words.
➢ The differense lie in their purpose.

5. Nature and function of the poem:
➢ According to colridge poem is a composition
in which the rhyme and the metre contains
a organic relation to the total work.
➢ Poem's aim is definitely to give pleasure.

6. ➢ All the parts of poem including metre, rhyme, diction, and
theme must harmonise with the wholeness of the
composition.
➢ Pleasure arising from the parts and this pleasure of the
parts supports and increases the pleasure of the whole.
➢ Not only End but entire journey of the reading poem is
important.

7. Major difference between prose
and poem
● Poem
● The aim of poem is
to please.
● Prose
● The immediate
object of the prose
is to give truth.

8. Diffinition of the poem by different
poets
● Macaulay: “ The art of doing by means of words
what painter does by means of colours”
● Wordsworth: “ poetry is the spontaneous overflow
of powerful feelings and emotions that recollected in
tranquility”
● Dr. johnson: “ Metrical composition”
● P.b. shelly: “The expression of the imagination”