Importance Of Imagination In William Coleridge's Poems By William Wordsworth

In the preface to the lyrical ballads William Wordswoth sais: “In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs, in spite of things silently gone out of mind and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time. The objects of the Poet’s thoughts are everywhere; though the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favorite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever’s he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge—it is as immortal as the heart of man.”

Romantic poetry was written during a period of wars and of revolutions, a period of immense

Wordsworth used primary ordinary incidents colored by imagination. Coleridge used extraordinary events. Imagination is used in Coleridge’s poetry as a poetic faculty to build new worlds, so imagination primarily serves to create these extraordinary events. However even if describing not ordinary events he does it keeping the truth of emotions. Nature for this poet is not a divinity as it is for the previous author, it is not divine and not a moral guide. He sees nature as the sign of god in earth. As we can see in the rhyme of the ancient mariner, for example, it is clear how the albatross is a sign of something bigger, of Jesus. All the events related to the albatross symbolize the relationship between God and men. The two poets consider imagination as what creates the suspension of disbelief by awakening the minds directing them to the wonders and loveliness of the world. This is the key point of this kind of poetry because with this imagination it is possible to take away the film of familiarity that closes eyes, ears and minds that is common of every