THE ROMANTIC

ERA A TIME OF IMAGINATION & MYSTERY

A
PRESENTATION
BY
PRATYUSHA KUILA

SEM 2, INTERNAL ASSESSMENT CC10

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,WBSU
COURSE COORDINATOR : Prof. SIPRA MUKHERJEE
 IMAGINATION IN ROMANTIC POETRY

 Imagination as a source of creativity

 Wordsworth defines Imagination as

“ The means of deep insight and sympathy,
the power to conceive and express images removed
from normal objective reality”
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 Emotion evoked by memory
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WORDSWORTH ON
IMAGINATION
Imagination is a transforming power
 Poetry is the modified ‘image of man and nature’
 Imaginatively visualize objects
 Calls imagination a ‘higher reason’
 Realization of the connection between particular and the eternal
“ Thou bright to me a tale
o visionary hour”
(TO THE CUCKOO,WILLIAM WORDSWORTH)
 Enables poet to look deep into heart
IMAGINATION IN PREFACE TO
LYRICAL BALLADS (1802)
 REVOLUTIONARY TEXT
 ACCESSIBLE TO ALL PEOPLE
 POETRY AS THE “ SPONTENIOUS OVERFLOW OF POWERFUL
FEELINGS”
 POETRY AS EMOTION “ RECOLLECTED IN TRANQUILITY”
 POETRY SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN THE “ REAL LANGUAGE OF
MAN”
COLRIDGE’S IMAGINATION

IMAGINATION

PRIMARY IMAGINATION SECONDARY IMAGINATION

DIFFEREMCE OF WORDSWORTH
AND COLRIDGE’S VIEW OF
IMAGINATION
WORDSWORTH COLRIDGE
 IMPACT OF  THEORY OF
IMAGINATION IMAGINATION
 USES FANCY  STUDY OFNATURE
 DOES NOT OF IMAGINATION
DISTINGUISH  STUDY IN GREATER
PRIMARY AND DEPTH
SECONDARY
IMAGINATION
 THANK YOU MA’AM

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