Thinking activity : View of Wordsworth and Coleridge on poem

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         Here I would like to put the brief note on the view of Wordsworth and Coleridge on poem .

∆ THE VIEW OF WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE ON POEM  :-

# The view of Coleridge :-

∆ DEFINITION OF POEM :-

    # According to Coleridge ,

          " A poem is that species of composition , which is opposed to work of science by opposing for its immediate object pleasure , not truth ; and from all other species ( having the object in common with it ) it is discriminate by proposing to itself such delight from the whole as is compatible with a distinct ratification from each component  part ".
         
 Biographia  Literaria ( 1817 ) chapter XIV  , Coleridge give his view on poem and poetry . According to Coleridge , a poem contains the same elements as a prose composition of them  , in convenience of a different object proposed . And Coleridge was great critic also . He criticised Wordsworth's " Lyrical Ballads "  and he writes that ,
               
                " Had Mr. Wordsworth's poem  been the silly , and the childish thing  which they were for a long time described as being ; had they had they been really distinguished from the composition of other poets marely  by meanless of language and inanity of thoughts ;  had they indeed contained nothing more than what is found in the parodies and pretended imitation of them ; they must have sunk at once , a dead weight , into the slough of oblivion and have dragged the preface along with them "

• The view of Wordsworth :-

                 In the  1798 edition of " Lyrical Ballads "  Wordsworth and Coleridge state that the poem in the collection were intended as a deliberate experiment in style and subject matter . Wordsworth elaborate on his idea in the ' preface ' to the 1800 and 1802 additions which outline his main idea of a new theory of poetry Wordsworth explain his poetical concept ,
          " The majority of the following poems are to be considered as experiments . They were written chiefly with a view to as certain how far the language of conversation in the middle and lower classes of society is adapted to the purpose of poetic pleasure ."

         And Wordsworth argue that poetry should be written in the real language of common man rather than in the lofty and elaborate diction that were then considered  "poetic"  . He believe that first principle of poetry should be pleasure through a rhythmic and beautiful expression of feeling . All human sympathy , he asserted is based on subtle pleasure principle that is " the and native dignity of man " .

∆ Analyse 2 poems with reference to  Wordsworth and Coleridge's view  :-


# " I wandered lonely as a cloud "  by Wordsworth :-

         The poem   " The Wandered Lonely As A Cloud " , one of the loveliest and famous in the Wordsworth Canon , revisist the familiar subject of  nature and memory , the plot is simple , depicting the poet's wondering and discovery of a field of  daffodils by lake .  The memory of which pleases him and comforts him when he is lovely , bored or restless . The characterization of the sudden occurrence of a memory, the daffodils " flash upon the inward eyes  , / which the bliss of solitude "  is a phychologically acute , but the poems main brilliance line in the reverse personification of its early stanza  . The speaker is metaphorically Compared to a nature object , a cloud -  " I wandered lonely cloud / that float on high ..." And daffodils are continually personified a human being , dancing and " tossing their heads " this technique implies an inherent unity between  man and nature .

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