ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Coleridge, imagination is the faculty associated with creativity and the power to shape and unify, while fancy, dependent on and inferior to imagination, is merely “associative.”

Detailed explanation-2: -Imagination and fancy, however, differs in kind. Fancy is not a creative power at all. It only combines what is perceives into beautiful shapes, but like the imagination it does not fuse and unify. The difference between the two is the same as the difference between a mechanical mixture and a chemical compound.

Detailed explanation-3: -Coleridge regards fancy to be the inferior to imagination. It only combines different things into different shapes not like imagination to fuse them into one. According to Coleridge, It is the process of bringing together images dissimilar by the main by source.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is the secondary imagination which makes any artistic creation possible and root of all poetic activity. It is considered as shaping and modifying power.