Concetti Chiave
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge emphasized the role of imagination in English Romanticism, distinguishing between primary and secondary imagination.
- Primary imagination, linked to human perception, allowed individuals to unconsciously organize chaos and shape reality.
- Secondary imagination was a conscious, voluntary act unique to poets, enabling them to create new and personal worlds.
- Coleridge highlighted the distinction between imagination and fancy, with imagination being the true creative force in poetry.
- Fancy was seen as a mechanical skill used to articulate pre-existing ideas through literary devices like metaphors and alliterations.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the most important authors of the English Romanticism. He stressed the role of imagination and considered two kinds of it:
- Primary imagination, that was connected with human perceptions and the individual power to produce images, was the ability to percieve reality giving chaos a certain order and giving the material of perception a certain shape. Everydoby had “primary imagination” and used it unconsciously.
- Secondary imagination was voluntary and used consciously; it was an act that only poet can did, in fact, like Coleridge said, “he dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate”. Through this kind of imagination the poet doesn’t only give a shape and an order to a given world, but he built new worlds. Every human being could recreate reality in a different way, so the work of art was unic and personal and while man previously thought that art had simply to reproduce reality, now artists had to recreate it.
Accedi a tutti gli appunti
Tutor AI: studia meglio e in meno tempo
