elite

1. Biographia Literaria
Coleridge

2. Chapter 14

3. Difference between prose and poetry
• Meter , Rhyme
• Truth , Pleasure

4. Difference between poem and poetry
• Poetry – No Imagination , no meter
• History and reality
• Poem – Meter
• Imagination

5. Imagination
• Primary Imagination – Un concious
• Secondary Imagination – “It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in
order to recreate; or where this process is rendered
impossible”
• Intended

6. Fancy
• Technical
• Mechanical

7. Chapter 17

8. Poetic language
•spoken by real persons.- Wordsworth.
•Heart find better soil
•Loyal, detach from Philosophical
language.
• Simple.

9. Colridge’s Reply
• certain level of education – far from science
• Purified restrict language = any other language
• Only few words
• Word ‘real’