Concetti Chiave
- Coleridge was born in Devonshire, studied in London, and attended Cambridge University without graduating, influenced by the French Revolution.
- He distinguished between two types of imagination: primary, which is creative and unconscious, and secondary, which is the poetic faculty for creating new worlds.
- Coleridge's view of nature differs from Wordsworth's; it represents the ideal in the real and is not seen as divine, reflecting a neo-Platonic perspective.
- His language is characterized by an archaic style rich in alliterations, repetitions, and onomatopoeias, drawing on exotic and medieval influences.
- "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a seven-part poem with a mysterious atmosphere, using traditional ballad features like dialogue, narration, and four-line stanzas.
• Life
Life of Coleridge
He born in Devonshire, studied in London, and attended the university in Cambridge but never graduated. His ideas were greatly influenced by French Revolution.
• Coleridge’s imagination
He considered two kind of imagination:
-primary: that is creative, original, used uncounsciously. Is the human individual power to create images. Is the power that gives caos an order.
-secondary:is the poetic faculty to create new worlds
• Fancy
The Imagination
the fancy is a logical and mechanical ability that the poet has to use devices like metaphors, allitterations to express his ideas.
• Coleridge’s nature
Unlike Wordsworth, isn’t a moral guide or a source of consolation. It represent the presence of ideal in real.it is not identified with the divine. He has a sort of new platonic view of the nature as the perfect world of ideas. For him the material world is the reflection of the real world of ideas in the flux of time.
• The language
The Language of Coleridge
he is interested in exotic and medieval period. He uses an archaic language with allitterations, repetitions and onomatopeas.
The rime of the ancient mariner
The rime of the ancient mariner is made up of seven parts. It is introduced by an argoument containing a summary of the whole poem that is always characterised by a misterious atmosphere. The mariner and his comrades are more types than human beings. Coleridge makes the mariner a spectator as well an actor.
This poem contains many of the features traditionally associated with the ballads that is the combination of dialogue and narration, the four line stanzas, frequent repetitions, allitterations.
This poem has been interpretated in many ways:
*It may be the description of a dream
*An allegory of the life of the soul
* but the interpretation that seems more relevant is the one of the description of the poetic jouney of Romanticism. The mariner is the poet, possessed by a song that derives from a guilt. This guilt is the actual origin of the poetry: it is the regret of a state of lost of innocence caused by the industrial revolution.
Domande da interrogazione
- What were the key influences on Coleridge's ideas and education?
Coleridge was born in Devonshire, studied in London, and attended Cambridge University, although he did not graduate. His ideas were significantly influenced by the French Revolution.
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