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رد: third year english student second term
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Poetry is a result of imagination.
What is imagination?
He says that every person has a kind of imagination. We all have imagination, but the degree is different from one person to another.
He divides imagination into two kinds: primary imagination and secondary imagination.
Primary imagination is the imagination that we all have. It is found in all human being. We can all imagine, but there are people who have an extra kind of imagination that is secondary imagination.
This extra secondary imagination is not the kind that is responsible for writing poetry. Poetry comes at an excessive kind of imagination. This is what he calls fancy. So, we have imagination and fancy.
We have two kinds of imagination, primary and secondary and third excessive imagination that is called fancy.
The Imagination then I consider either as primary, or secondary.
He defines primary imagination
The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
As long as we live, as long as we exist, we have a kind of imagination that is found in him that makes him see things.
The primary imagination is the power and the basic agent of all human perception. When we perceive something, we imagine it in a certain way. This is found in every person.
When we hear the word tree, we imagine the picture of a tree. This is what our imagination tells us about the word we hear, but each of us when we hear the word tree, we start having different images, not just only one image. We start with the basic, but then we start go further than the basic.
The tree is the green plant with truck, branches, and leaves , but something go further and we start to imagine a different thing about the tree. so, this is the second kind of imagination.
The first imagination is the first picture that we come to our mind. This is a kind of creation. We create in our mind a picture of the word tree.
The first picture is the creation of our imagination.
then the second imagination
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree, and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate: or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
It is an echo. We have the first picture that comes to our mind, and then we have an echo of this picture. We start linking, connecting between what came to our mind in this particular moment, to what is there in our memory, our other experiences.
The secondary is the same as primary. The first picture is the primary; the secondary is connected to the primary. So, it is linked to the same picture. We do not get something new. We do not see a thing that is completely different. It is the same, but we can add things to it. Some people stops at the first imagination, some people go further to the second. So, it is the same, it is identical. It differs only in degree and the mood of its operation. The mood is different from one person to another.
The first picture is the picture of a tree, and then we start adding to it. We are not creating it. We are asking my memories to give us some information that is kept there, and then we start to caret from it.
So, we are diffusing, mixing what we have previously of what we are adding. This second imagination is a kind of dissolving things together, diffusing things together in order to recreate something new.
We are not actually inventing. We are putting things together from our memory to recreate- we are not creating- something from what we have already in our mind. We recall something that is already there.
In the secondary imagination we recreate by unifying it together.
All things are fixed, but our mind start to imagine. We do not all see the same picture in the same way. We add to it from our own imagination which we are recalling from our experience, our memory. The memory of each person is different, so what we recall will be also different. This is the secondary imagination. It is recreation of what is already there in the mind.
FANCY, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space; while it is blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word Choice. But equally with the ordinary memory the Fancy must receive all its materials ready made from the law of association
Fancy is creating, inventing. This is the quality that should be found in an artist. It does not work in exact time and in particular place.
It is something that we create. It comes by the will. The artist asks it to come. It does not come spontaneously. It has to be always linked to choice and will. The artist is not inventing something that is not in his mind. It is there in his mind. It comes from the law of association. We associate things together. This is poetry. This is how fancy works.
Fancy receives all its material ready made from the law of association.
This is what Coleridge calls fancy.
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