ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate “shaping” or creative power, the approximate human equivalent of the creative powers of nature or even deity. It is dynamic, an active, rather than passive power, with many functions. Imagination is the primary faculty for creating all art.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Romantics came to believe that, through the imagination, you could discover truths that the rational mind could not reach. To the Romantics, the imagina-tion, individual feelings, and wild nature were of greater value than reason and logic. Poetry was considered the highest embodiment of the Romantic imagination.

Detailed explanation-3: –Wordsworth: For him imagination is a supreme gift, and he used imagination as synonym of “intuition”, it is the power to see into reality. All poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity and through the power of memory the emotion is reproduced in poetic form.