ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Coleridge distinguishes a poem from poetry in his “Biographia Literaria". He opines that poetry is a wider term than a poem. It is an activity of poet’s mind. But a poem is merely one of the forms of its expression.

Detailed explanation-2: -Coleridge distinguishes a poem from poetry in his ‘Biographical Literaria’. He opines that poetry is wider term than a poem. Poetry is an activity of poet’s mind but a poem is merely one of the forms of its expression. Poetic creativity is basically an activity of imagination.

Detailed explanation-3: -A poem can be rhyming and non-rhyming, simple, or complex. A poetry is classical flow of words that explain and encrypt what’s on the mind of the poet and make it feel the reader, in the same way, the poet images. Poetry is the use of words and language to evoke a writer’s feelings and thoughts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Coleridge considers poetry as the fragrance of all human knowledge and thoughts. It is the scent of human passions, emotions and language. He thinks that no man was ever a great poet without being a profound philosophy. A great poet should attempt and achieve a union between the high finish and the appropriateness.