Coleridge's view on Prose, Pem and Poetry

↠ Samuel Taylor Coleridge's : Biographia Literaria :

Biographia literaria includes some of the most important English writing on poetic theory. Some of it is a response to ideas of poetry advanced by his close friend and collaborator WILLIAM WORDSWORTH first in the 1800 preface to their joint publication LYRICAL BALLADSand then in the preface to wordsworth's collection poems(1815). referring to the letter, coleridge says he wants in Biographia Literaria to make clear 'on what points I coincide with the opinions in that preface, and in what points I altogether differ'.



MAJOR WORKS:


Demonic poems: - The rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Kubla Khan
- christabel

Conversational poems: - Frost at Morning
- Dejection: An Ode

Essays: - Biographia Litraria
- Lecture on Shakespear



Difference between poem and prose:




According to Coleridge:

Poem and Prose can not be distinguish from rhyme or meter but he said ultimate and immediate can make them different . The immediate aim of prose is to show truth and the immediate aim of poetry is to give aesthetic pleasure. The ultimate aim of poetry is to show truth.

Poem:

In Poem I can observe that if a person writes his own creation it includes his feelings, emotions and also his life long experiance that's call poem.


Prose:

Prose means, " written or spoken language in its ordinary form without metrical structure" or "Words in their best order"

Example:
If a writer says something directly or in a prosaic form has different impression than a poet says in poetic manner. If a writer expressed love in prose is good but the lines "my love is like a red red rose..." is more affective. The second one gives truth with delight while the first one is just related with truth. so the prose has all the quailites but it ha slight different and i's the feeling of delight.




ELEMENTS OF PROSE AND POEM:

POEM PROSE

METRE METRE
RHYME RHYME
DICTION
THEME
HARMONIZE

THE NATURE OF POEM

VERBAL EXPRESSION OF ACTIVITY

POEM SHOULD BE PLEASURABLE

POEM DEFINED AS A SPECIES OF COMPOSITION


THE NATURE OF PROSE:
IMMIDIATE PURPOSE TO GIVE TRUTH:

"It must be one , the parts of which mutually supports and explain each other; all in their proportion harmonizing with , and supporting the purpose and known influence of metrical arrangement."

According to Coleridge:

"poetry of the highest kind may exist without meter and even without rhyme and was contra-distinguish object of mind."

The main difference between poem and poetry is...
For it is a distinguish resulting from the poetic genius itself , which sustains and modifies the images, thoughts, and emotion of the poetic's own mind. Thus the difference between poem and poetry is not clear, to defining poetry proceeds to enumerate the characteristics of the imagination.