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COLERIDGE: features and themes
(his best poems illustrate all the…
COLERIDGE: features and themes
(his best poems illustrate all the elements which constitute the spirit of Romanticism, so in one sense he's even more full-bloodedly "romantic" than Wordsworth)
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NATURE
Nature plays an important part in his poems, but unlike Wordsworth, Coleridge does not find happiness and consolation in it
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MUSIC
Coleridge makes use of special sounds, words and devices (alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, internal rhyme, unequal lines, repetition...) in order to create the unreal atmosphere of his best poems
IMAGINATION
PRIMARY IMAGINATION
"the living power and prime agent of human perception", it's the faculty by which we perceive the world around us; it works through our senses and is common to all human beings
SECONDARY IMAGINATION
"dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create". It 's the poetic vision, the faculty the poet has "to idealise and unify".
FANCY
It's a kind of nechanical and logical faculty which enables the poet to aggregate and create metaphors, similes and other poetical devices . It's inferior to imagination because it is not creative.
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