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Name : mori utsavi bharatbhai
RollNo.: 44
Enrollment No.:  2069108420180037
M.A.  Sem-1
Year:  2017-2019
Email id:  utsavibarajput18@gmai.com
Paper No.:  3
Submitted To .: Department of  English
                           bhavnagar
Topic: Coleridge definition of a  poem

• Introduction:~                                                                                                        Coleridge is  poet and philosopher. The work of Coleridge naturally divided into three classes; His poem synthesis  poet’s emotion feeling. Coleridge  is more musical than Wordsworth. In his poem include Imagination is very important for Coleridge, poem is synthetic and magical power. The difference is  between the combination of those elements and objects. A poem has well known rhyme like; of the days in the several months, 

• “Thirty days hath September,  April, June and November”.

 Coleridge was deals with “persons and character supernatural’ According to Coleridge he also says that “Distinction resulting from the poetic genius itself which sustain sand modifies, thoughts, and emotions of the poet’s own mind” Poetry for Coleridge is an activity of the poet’s mind. The poem is merely one of the forms of its expression; According to Coleridge poetry should be ‘best world in best order’ and it delight from the ‘harmonious whole’

For example:  human body.

    Coleridge definition of a poem:~

   ~ his work Biographia Literaria is a great literary  work,it has occupied a permanent position in the whole range  of English literary criticism,and the critic discusses many important points form that. He has drawn some striking  difference between poem and poetry. However, at the end of it we are not absolutely sure about the exact remarking between poem and poetry in its essence they are supposed to be the same.

~John Shawcross writes:~

“This distinction between ‘poetry’ and ‘poem’ is not clear, and instead of defining poetry he proceeds to describe a poet, and from the poet he proceeds to enumerate the characteristics ni of the imagination”A poem according to Coleridge contains the same elements as a prose composition because both using the words.The difference between a poem and a prose composition cannot then lay in the medium for each employs the same medium,

~i.e.words

     It must therefore “consist in a different combination of them in consequent of a different object being proposed''. 

 further he says that ''a poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science by proposing for its immediate object pleasure not truth''.

  ~This distinction between poetry an poem is not clear to the core we are left with more questions than answers at the end of it we find, to sum up we can say that Coleridge's distinction between poem and poetry is not clear enough by the word poetry he means all kind of imaginative activity. Only in his sense he has drawn a distinction between a ‘poem’ and ‘poetry’. Not only that, Coleridge also distinguishes a 'Poem' from 'poetry'. According to Shawcross, “this distinction between 'poetry' and 'poem' is not very clear, and instead of defining poetry he proceeds to describe a poet, and from the poet; he proceeds to enumerate the characteristics of imagination.

          Conclusion:~

                          According to Coleridge he says poem and poetry is not any length he given a  new criticism and this was provide by Coleridge in the ‘Biographia Literaria.’ Biographia Literaria is a fashion of autobiography, literary criticism and philosophical theory.   Fact and fiction both are very important part of literature thus; Coleridge is the first English critic based his literary criticism on philosophical principles.

~     For him ‘art is more important’ than any other thing.