LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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The unifying power
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Ability to coin new word
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Power of imagination
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Negative capability
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Detailed explanation-1: -dictionary defines the adjective esemplastic as: “moulding into one; unifying” Coleridge refers to the “esemplastic power of the imagination”, “esemplastic” meaning “shaping into One”.
Detailed explanation-2: -: shaping or having the power to shape disparate things into a unified whole. the esemplastic power of the poetic imagination W. H. Gardner.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first recorded use of the word is in 1817 by Coleridge in his work, Biographia Literaria, in describing the esemplastic – the unifying – power of the imagination.
Detailed explanation-4: -He believed that the imagination had an esemplastic power. The poet’s work is esemplastic, bringing together diverse words and images in new and exciting combinations. The imagery has the esemplastic power to create a thematic unity in the poem.
Detailed explanation-5: -The soul is the imagination. Coleridge’s assertion that the imagination is both synthetic and magical only reaffirms what is already known about him. His works, especially in the Lyrical Ballads, deal with the supernatural in so far as they express real emotions regardless of whether one believes in the phenomena.