Concetti Chiave
- Both Coleridge and Wordsworth emphasize a return to the past and the poetical form of the ballad.
- Nature and the use of imagination to transform reality and incorporate supernatural elements are central themes for both poets.
- They share the practice of recollecting emotions in tranquility to evoke similar emotions in readers through their poetry.
- Wordsworth focuses on making ordinary things extraordinary through simple language and everyday situations.
- Coleridge explores the supernatural, exotic places, and employs traditional poetic forms like alliterations and rhyme schemes.
Similarities between Coleridge and Wordsworth
Similarities between Coleridge and Wordsworth: return to the past, the poetical form of the ballad, nature, uses of immagination to trasform reality and supernatural elements. Both of them recollect the emotion in tranquillity, to think about the emotion and to start writing "a poem": the aim is to recreate an emotion similar to the one you have had, so that people who will read will experience a similar emotion.
Differences between Wordsworth and Coleridge
Differences between Wordsworth and Coleridge: Wordsworth made ordinary things extraordinary; Coleridge made extrardinary things real.
- Wordsworth concentrated on simple things as ordinary language and situations;
- Coleridge concentrated on supernatural events, exotic places and ancient harmony and old forms of poetry as alliterations, assonances, repetitions, simile and typical rhyme schemes.