Concetti Chiave
- Primary imagination is akin to Wordsworth's idea of recollection in tranquility, serving as the essential creative faculty that enables creativity and order from chaos.
- Secondary imagination transcends primary imagination by creating a new world with unique thought categories, offering a distinct human vision.
- Fancy involves associating existing elements, allowing poets to craft similes, metaphors, and other rhetorical figures.
- The Ancient Mariner's narrative unfolds in seven parts, depicting a moral journey of sin, guilt, and redemption, symbolized through interactions with nature and supernatural elements.
- Interpretations suggest the poem as a dream influenced by opium, an allegory of the soul's journey, or a life metaphor contrasting rationality and irrationality.
Immaginazione e creatività
● Can be compared to the recollection in tranquility of Wordsworth
● Was the essential creative faculty: enable men to create
● Was the power to order chaos(emotions)
● Something more the primary imagination
● The mind, when we use secondary imagination, does not imitate
the world that we know, but creates a new world using new categories of thought. So human beings can’t have the same vision of the world.
● Was based on the association of somethings that exist. So
enables the poet to create similes, metaphor, and other figures of speech.
La ballata del vecchio marinaio
The Ancient Mariners (romantic ballad: moral: appreciate all forms of life)
1. The ancient mariner stops a wedding guest and tells him his story. He narrates how he and his crew arrive at the equator, find a storm and how he kills the albatross.
2. The ancient mariner begins to suffer for what he has done. The world among him becomes fearful. The ship stops and the only moving things in the sea are snakes.
3. The mariner’s Guilty soul becomes conscious of what he has done. A phantom ship arrives and there the Death and Life cast dice. The crew dies and the mariner lives.
4. The mariner blesses the snakes and begins to reestablish a relationship with the world of nature.
5. The ship begins to move.
6. The process of purification seems to be expedited.
7. The mariner obtains the wedding guest sympathy.
Coleridge doesn’t tell us the end of the story. But we can assume that the mariner’s sense of guilt will end only with his death.
Il viaggio dell'anima
● A description of a dream(during opium effects)
● An allegory of the life of the soul (sin, punishment, redemption,
penitence)
● An allegory of life (life is compared to a sea voyage:
crew=humankind, albatross=the pact of love between all forms of life and God, ship=microsystem where an action made by someone influenced everyone
● Consìtrast between rationality (sunlight) and irrationality (moonlight)
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué es la imaginación primaria según el texto?
- ¿Cómo se diferencia la imaginación secundaria de la primaria?
- ¿Cuál es el papel del "Ancient Mariner" en la balada romántica mencionada?
La imaginación primaria es la facultad creativa esencial que permite a los hombres crear y ordenar el caos, similar a la "recolección en tranquilidad" de Wordsworth.
La imaginación secundaria no imita el mundo conocido, sino que crea un nuevo mundo con nuevas categorías de pensamiento, ofreciendo una visión única del mundo.
El "Ancient Mariner" narra su historia de culpa y redención, destacando la importancia de apreciar todas las formas de vida y mostrando un proceso de purificación y reconciliación con la naturaleza.
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