Willing Suspension of Disbelief by Coleridge I Coleridge's Theory of Imagination I Biographia Literaria Dr. Vipul V. Kapoor

1. Willing Suspension
of Disbelief
S. T. Coleridge
Dr. Vipul V. Kapoor

2. Where do we find this phrase?

3. Meaning of “Willing suspension of disbelief”

5. Power of Secondary Imagination
The poet must uses his secondary imagination
(dissolve, defuse and dissipate) to recreate
something new.
True poetry has the power to create this
suspension of disbelief.
It makes us feel that it is real, though in reality
it is unreal.

6. Thank You
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