Coleridge e le sue caratteristiche, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Coleridge e le sue caratteristiche e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Coleridge The preface is used to tell what the poet had done previously. The Manifesto is more than a preface, it includes the role of the poetry, the role of the poet, role of imagination, role of nature, definition of the poet and the language used in the poem. Coleridge and Wordsworth were friends and used to collaborate. Coleridge was a poet and a Philosopher. He used to be studied in philosophy too but since he had written too many poems, essays and pamphlets and they’re also incomplete and contradictory, he was stopped to be studied. He introduced idealism and mysticism of Germany to England. He was also the first to formulate the principle of imagination as a creative faculty. The difference between Coleridge and Wordsworth is that WW used to start by already felt emotions, in fact we can talk about half creation. (The emotions felt by the poet during the half creation are the same felt previously) Coleridge talks about Complete Creative Faculty It differences from the half creation because he starts from the begging to create the emotions and he doesn’t recreate them. - in Britain there was a tradition based on empiricism. He reconnected to this tradition to develop the principle of recreating: starting from something already known in order to mutate it and create something new. 1817 -biographia literaria (Latin) It’s a sort of preface. He decides to write the title in Latin cause it’s the language of intellectuals and church. Even if we come form a selection of language, but still peasants language in order to be comprehensible and more able to be empathised. Empiricism says that you be come able to connect stuff mentally as long as you grow up. Coleridge sustains that our mind has two district faculties: 1. Fancy —> composition faculty. Everyone has it. Fancy creates a number of images in places and put them side by side without aiming a superior unity. Our mind works following our temporary and special faculties. It associates faculties. Law of association : associates images and faculties. (Guided memory helps our mind to do that) It’s also the mechanical operation of the mind which is responsible for a passive accumulation fo data. (Storage of datas on our memory) Memory it self operates in this way thanks to the law association. Fancy is the result os this mechanical operation. 2. Imagination —> poetic faculty or creative faculty. It describes a sort of mysterious power which is able to extract from such data ideas and meaning. • Primary imagination: (everyone ha it) the way we perceive reality through senses— > just like the one introduced by WW. The primary imagination is just like the half creation. Coleridge owns this type of imagination. In fact it looks for hidden messages, details etc. • Secondary imagination: superior unity. (Not everyone has it) It creates new harmonies of meaning. It transcends over the sensational material (the way we perceive through senses). This faculty brings the mind in a sort of direct contact with ultimate and superior unity. Like God crated the world. It’s creating from nowhere. It works differently from the recreation of something. The difference between primary and secondary imagination is the fact that the primary one is not intentional while the secondary is. The primary one operates and balances quite automatically the innate capacity of the mind with the external presence of the objective world that is perceive through the senses. The primary is necessary but also automatic. Fancy and sensation perceiving —> half creation. Ability to learn from nature, it’s a common faculty. It can be only associated with artistic genius —> secondary imagination (poetry and art) This process can break down what we’ve perceived in order to recreate autonomously the things we’ve perceive; it has no analog in the natural world. Act of volontà—> dissipates the categories. It’s the secondary imagination that starts a process of dissipation to eliminate about categories Superior unity: —> it’s the way we categorise sub groups of a “superior” unity. Literature for ex. Include romances (gothic, yellow, scientific) chants, poetry which are all part of the macro group of “literature” The process of creation in which you gotta melt imagines one in other can’t be described using a small vocabulary (few words, few phrases). Archaism and neologism are used instead, figures of speech (oxymorons, metaphors) and a very extended vocabulary. He doesn’t use Latin even if the title is in Latin. WW used to explain stuff using simple concepts. Imaginary and fancy • The soul is considered eternal The secondary imaginations differences itself from the other by intensity. Fancy is a lower form of imaginations because it’s more extended, deals with fixity and definite (fisso e definito), in other words with everything that our mind already knows and is able to associate. In this phase our mind reorder elements - diffuse dissolve and dissipate the categories The aim is creation —> Our minds tends to classify something we’ve already felt, known; so we gotta eliminate the category in order to analyse those things in a new way, with Ouse assimilating that thing to something else we already know.