Scarica Comparative analysis of Wordsworth and Coleridge in poetry e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Comparative analysis of Wordsworh and Coleridge in poetry Wordsworth and Coleridge are the two most important poets of the first English romantic period. Both of them decided to transform the old currents of classicism and gave a new form to poetry, in fact, they worked together to create the collection “Lyrical Ballad. They have some different points of view about poetry, nature and imagination. Imagination Wordsworth believes that imagination is used to enrich simple ideas in tranquillity. Men have this faculties before the birth and they loose it growing up (My heart leaps up). Coleridge divides imagination into primary (which can be experienced by every human being) and secondary (which can only be experienced by the poet). It’s the capacity to perceive the world (common to all people) around us and then the capacity to order those momories and enrich them by supernatural elements. Moreover, Coleridge also talks about fancy. That’s is inferior to imagination because it’s not creative: it’s a kind of logical facultaty which enables a poet to associate material already provided an blend it into beatiful images like metaphors, similes and other poetical devices. Nature Wordsworth feels nature full of life, like if it would be a part of us, in order to Pantheistic vision. It’s opposed to town and it’s seen as a source of fellings, joy and happiness. Moreover nature comforts man in sorrow. Coleridge, instead, sees the nature as the One life (a divine force), and all his descriptions of lanscapes or natural elements are endowed with a deeper symbolic meaning. One special thing about the two poets is that both of them always love and appreciate nature. Poetry Worsdworth says poetry is a spontaneous expression of feelings; it’s “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. The poet takes inspiration from rustic life, and then, he combines the memory of those emotions with the use of imagination. Coleridge believes that poetry is a product of unconscius and it creates a kind of ecstasy, which is reproduced by the use of memory and the adding of supernatural elements. Atmophere Coleridge chooses the medioval period for creating the atmosphere of magic and mystery. In fact, we have described The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a poem full of mystery, because the poet combines supernatural elements (ghosts, water snakes…) with gothic elements. We can say that Coleridge was idealistic and his range is based on abstract thoughts. His intellect was quick, versatile and penetrating. Moreover, his charachters are more sterotypes than human beings and their agonies are simply universally human. On the other hand, Wordsworh presents the common life of rural people. His task consists in drawing attention to the ordinary things of life, to the humblest pople, where the deepest emotions and thruths can be found.
