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1. Coleridge the nature and function of poetry
Name- Vaishali H Jasoliya
Roll no. – 29
Enrollment No. – PG 14101019
Paper no. 2 – Literary theory & Criticism
Email id- jasoliyavaishali@gmail.com
Submitted to – Department of English Maharaja
Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

2.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge was by nature an
ideal type of man.
 He is a great poet of nature.
 Coleridge could not have written a large
number of finer poems because, the quality of
Coleridge’s poetic genius does not suggest long
life.

4. POEM PROSE
 Metre
 Rhyme
 Diction
 Theme
 Harmonise
 Metre
 Rhyme

5. The Nature of Poem
Verbal Expression of Activity
Poem should be Pleasurable.
Poem defined as a species of
Composition

6. “ the reader should be carried forward,
not merely or chiefly by the mechanical
impulse of curiosity or by a restless
desire to arrive at the final solution; but
by the pleasurable activity of mind
excited by the attractions of the journey
itself “.

7. The Nature of Prose
“ it must be one, the parts of which
mutually support and explain each other;
all in their proportion harmonizing with,
and supporting the purpose and known
influences of metrical arrangement “.

8.  Pleasure
 Reality of life
 Truth
 Moral

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