The document discusses different perspectives on imagination from several thinkers. Wordsworth believed imagination combined with memory could lead to creating new worlds through recollection of good emotions. Coleridge divided imagination into primary imagination, which allows people to perceive and recreate images in their minds, and secondary imagination, which uses primary imagination to create new worlds. Byron saw the Byronic hero as embodying constant contrasts that elevate individualism. Shelley thought imagination allows poetry to express revolutionary creativity and change the world. Keats defined two forms of imagination: one creating an artificial world and one simulating a world from ideals and experiences.
The document discusses different perspectives on imagination from several thinkers. Wordsworth believed imagination combined with memory could lead to creating new worlds through recollection of good emotions. Coleridge divided imagination into primary imagination, which allows people to perceive and recreate images in their minds, and secondary imagination, which uses primary imagination to create new worlds. Byron saw the Byronic hero as embodying constant contrasts that elevate individualism. Shelley thought imagination allows poetry to express revolutionary creativity and change the world. Keats defined two forms of imagination: one creating an artificial world and one simulating a world from ideals and experiences.
The document discusses different perspectives on imagination from several thinkers. Wordsworth believed imagination combined with memory could lead to creating new worlds through recollection of good emotions. Coleridge divided imagination into primary imagination, which allows people to perceive and recreate images in their minds, and secondary imagination, which uses primary imagination to create new worlds. Byron saw the Byronic hero as embodying constant contrasts that elevate individualism. Shelley thought imagination allows poetry to express revolutionary creativity and change the world. Keats defined two forms of imagination: one creating an artificial world and one simulating a world from ideals and experiences.
The document discusses different perspectives on imagination from several thinkers. Wordsworth believed imagination combined with memory could lead to creating new worlds through recollection of good emotions. Coleridge divided imagination into primary imagination, which allows people to perceive and recreate images in their minds, and secondary imagination, which uses primary imagination to create new worlds. Byron saw the Byronic hero as embodying constant contrasts that elevate individualism. Shelley thought imagination allows poetry to express revolutionary creativity and change the world. Keats defined two forms of imagination: one creating an artificial world and one simulating a world from ideals and experiences.
specific definition of this supreme gift which is intuition. This great power Wordsworth combined with that of memory could lead to the creation of new worlds, only possible in the recollection in tranquility of good emotions. This abilities exalt man’s individualism.
He devided imagination into two different
forms, the primary imagination is the abilty of man to perceive images and re- create them in his own mind and store Coleridge them in his memory; while the secondary imagination is the power to create new worlds using the information collected with the primary imagination. Thus imagination is the tool each man uses to confirm is individualism, elevating each one of us to a divine creature. Byronic hero is a man full of constant contrasting qualities therefore each one of Byron them exalts him to the unique being he is, underlining the importance of individualism. Through imagination poetry is able to Shelley express revolutionary creativity thus becoming a tool able to change the world.
He defines two forms of imagination: the
Keats first one leads to an artificial world created by his own imagination, while the second one is a simulated world made of his ideals and his experiences.