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-Coleridge‟s “esemplastic” power is intuitive, unitive, faculty that sees the Whole behind the parts, the One behind the many. Where reason analyzes and reduces into parts, Imagination puts the parts back together into a Whole and takes us to the hidden metaphysical unity behind multiplicity.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. Coleridge calls secondary imagination a magical power; it fuses various faculties of human soul-will, emotion, intellect, perception.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Coleridge, Imagination has two forms i.e. Primary and Secondary. Primary imagination is merely the power of receiving impressions of the external world through the senses. It is the power of perceiving the objects of sense, both in their parts and as a whole.

Detailed explanation-5: -Coleridge’s assertion that the imagination is both synthetic and magical only reaffirms what is already known about him.