S.T Coleridge’s view on poem and prose

Coleridge’s view on poem and prose

 

  Introduction :-

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a poet, philosopher, and literary critic whose writings have been enormously influential in the development of modern thought. In his own lifetime, Coleridge was renowned throughout 

Britain and Europe as one of the Lake Poets, a close-knit group of writers including William Wordsworth and Robert Southey, who resided in the English Lake District. He is greater than great and a genius of his poetic work as we can look in his poems and by that feeling of nature, romance preciousness we feel. Coleridge was the son of a Vicar. 

He was educated at Christ’s Hospital, London, where he failed to get a degree. In the summer of 1794 Coleridge became friends with the future poet Laureate Southey, with whom he wrote a verse drama. 

Together they formed a plan to establish a pantisocracy, a utopian community, in New English. They married sisters, but the scheme fell apart and they argued over money and politics.

Coleridge was also known to many English readers as a talented prose writer, especially as the author of the Biographia Literaria (1817), a literary autobiography; The Friend (1809- 1810), a collection of essays; and Aids to Reflection (1825), a series of aphorisms on religious faith.

Coleridge’s view on Poem:

The poem contains the same elements as a prose composition. But the difference is between the combination of those elements and objects aimed at in both the composition.

“In Imaginative power and Narrative Skills, Coleridge surpassed Wordsworth”

According to the difference of the object will be the difference of the combination. If the object of the poet may simply be to facilitate the memory to recollect (remember) certain facts, he would make use of certain artificial arrangement of words with the help of metre. As a result composition will be a poem, merely because it is distinguished from composition in prose by metre, or by rhyme. In this, the lowest sense, one might attribute the name of a poem to the well-known enumeration of the days in the several months;

“Thirty days hath September,

April, June, and November, &c.”

Rhyme:

Most traditional poems use rhyme as a basic device for holding the poem together. Rhyme is the agreement in sound between words or syllables. The best way to think of rhyme is not as a series of lock stepping sound effects but as a system of echoes. Poets use rhyme to recall earlier words, to emphasize certain points, and to make their language memorable. In fact, rhymes can be extremely effective in making language take hold in a reader’s mind.

• Lines from S.T. Coleridge’s “The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner”;

“And I had done a hellish thing

And it would work’em woe:

For all averred, I had killed the bird

That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,

That made the breeze to blow.”

Coleridge’s view on Prose:

The conception on the matters and situation take place in the creational way to drown in hierarchy that can better impact in humans mind. We see that a poem contains the same elements as a prose composition; the difference therefore must consist in a different combination of them, in consequence of a different object proposed. Prose writings and its immediate purpose and ultimate end. In scientific and historical composition, the immediate purpose is to convey the truth facts. In the prose works of other kinds romances and novels, to give pleasure in the immediate purpose and the ultimate end may be to give truth. Thus, the communication of pleasure may be the immediate object of a work not metrically composed. Coleridge, as the editor of her father's posthumously published prose works. The Biographia Literaria was widely read and reviewed at the time of its original publication and it remains the best known of Coleridge's prose works.

It’s a type of the view towards the reader and perspective through the art and it’s tale well, we can say that more to think and more to growth by that also it’s difficult to determine but the fact is always be like this to order such as words in their best order.