Comment on Coleridge’s views on Imagination

Comment on Coleridge’s views on Imagination

Imagination is the basic and most important creative faculty in a poet.  No poet can write poetry without the faculty of imagination.  Imagination is the faculty by which a poet observes different forms and objects in human life and nature, and unifies them into one whole which is more beautiful and more sublime than the original ones.  With its "plastic stress" it dissolves and diffuses different objects in to one 'Sweet Solution'.  Therefore imagination is called 'shaping and unifying power.'

Coleridge divides imagination into two forms or stages: Primary Imagination and Secondary Imagination

Primary Imagination: (Living power and prime agent of all human perception). Coleridge asserts that the mind is active in perception. This activity which is subconscious and is the common birthright of all men, is the work of the Primary Imagination, which may be defined as the inborn power of perceiving that makes it possible for us to know things. The Primary Imagination is a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal art of creation in the infinite I AM. The power of perception, Coleridge called as Primary Imagination whereas the poetic imagination as the Secondary Imagination. It differs from the Primary Imagination in degree, but not in kind. While all men possess the Primary, only some men possess the heightened degree of the universally human power to which the poet lays claim.........................................................................................................................................................

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