...object which evoke the emotions. Imagination enables the poet to look deep into the heart and soul of things. It is through the imaginative faculty that poet arrives at the general truths basic to human nature. Through the imaginative power, the poet is able to present emotions which he has not directly experienced. But he presents them in such a way that they seem personally experienced. Imagination is always associated with the created power and is a poetic principle. It is a transforming power as it has the ability to change the usual and ordinary in an unusual and uncommon way. Poetry is a modified "image of man and nature”. The poet is able to impart "the glory and freshness of a dream" to ordinary things of nature. He can present in his poetry the light that never was on land and sea. He is able to do so to the creative faculty of imagination. It is thus an active power. Poet is not a passive reflector of images formed from nature. He is a man who not only feels strongly but also thinks long and deeply. He is able to treat absent things as if they are present. Here Canterbury tales present an example of this imaginative power to visualize objects which are not present before poet’s eyes in their concrete forms but he presents them before us that they seem real. 29 pilgrims of Chaucer are his imaginative characters, all their qualities, merits and demerits are his own creations and here his creation is supported by his imagination. Imagination enables the poet to look deep into...
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...happening by the power and force of imaginative identification, to us. We not only see; we suffer alongside the hero and are branded with the same mark of ‘punishment and poverty,’ to use Tutuola’s familiar phrase. (Truth of Fiction, 144)” According to the author’s statement and the interpretation of this passage, the force and power behind our emotions and imagination makes things seem vivid and alive to us, even if they are surreal. Our imagination and interpretation of what we see or read makes us relate to what we see. Like watching a movie, when we see the hero or heroine get shot or going through some kind of problems, the force and power behind our imagination makes us relate strongly to the character and even drives us almost to the point of crying for the hero/heroine. According to the author, things don’t just happen in front us or before us, our imagination makes the situation seems so powerful that it feels as if we’re the one going through the pain, not the actor/actress in the movie or hero/heroine in the book. Our imagination is very powerful and it makes surreal things seem real. Even though we know it’s just a movie and it’s not real, we still suffer along with the person in the movie. This is not because the person playing the character is a good actor or actress, according to Achebe, it is because of the force and power behind our imagination that makes us relate to the situation. Personally, my interpretation of the passage is that our imagination drives our...
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...romantic poem is written by Coleridge, and through it, he shows the power of imagination that results in the importance of poetry as an art. The poem has the most significant romantic characteristics: nature, imagination and supernaturalism. The mother is everything for everyone, and nature, considered as the great mother by the romantics, is everything for Coleridge and other romantic poets. The poem takes place in nature in which Kubla Khan builds his dome of rock. The poet describes a wild nature showed by the sacred river that is measureless and sunless and the forests, the hills and the eternal spring. This beautiful nature is no more when it's touched by humans. When Kubla Khan ordered to build the dome, humans begin to corrupt every natural element there and to mix it with artificial one. When the natural place is distorted by humans, we find the poet describing the place as enchanted, and introducing a woman wailing for her demon-love. All these frightened scenes described in the poem have something to do with the corruption man causes to nature. Romantic poets would be nothing without imagination. Imagination is the power that distinguishes the romantic poets from others. The two kinds of imagination is found here in the poem. The primary imagination is the foundation on which the author based his poem. The action of Kubla Khan ordering people to build a dome of rock for him is totally imagination. They said that the poet was interrupted through his dream, so...
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...imitate human life. This however arguably took a step back and paved the way for the 19th century view that art and literature was to established on the grounds of pure emotion, imagination, external and internal experience. Or as William Wordsworth would say that ‘[...] poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.’ The poet therefore assumed the role of the mediator between man and nature. The role of the poet was arguably in place to showcase beauty, truth and the endless possibilities that tradition had previously encased. Within this new enlightened form of expression in literature, the imagination had been elevated to a primary position in regards to poetic composition. The imagination allowed poets to see beyond surface value, to create an external world of existence. It permitted them to see the truth beyond powers of reason and rationality. Samuel Taylor Coleridge in particular was a poet fascinated with the potential and limitless possibilities of the imagination. Coleridge placed considerable emphasis upon the imagination as a focal element within his poetry. He categorised the imagination into two key sectors; the primary imagination and secondary imagination. As explained in Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria: ‘The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and a repetition in the finite of the external act of creation of the infinite I AM. The secondary I consider as an echo of the former, coexisting...
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...What would you do if you were forced into another place? A place that was alien to you, where the customs were different? And what if you were on your own, just a child? That is what happened to Alyss Heart, princess and heir to the Wonderland throne. Frank Beddor, the author of The Looking Glass Wars, tells a tale of a woman who has to grow up away from home, lost and confused about her purpose. In The Looking Glass Wars, Beddor uses figurative language to describe and characterize Alyss over the span of 13 years. In the beginning of the novel, Alyss is characterized as playful, oblivious, and imaginative. Alyss likes to play pranks using different objects, including her imagination, which she has used to turn the first parachute ever made furry. (Beddor 21) Alyss also seems that she would rather do what she perceives as fun, even if it is good for humanity, as seen in the quote, “She would rather have hidden with her friend Dodge in one of the palace towers, dropping jollyjellies from an open window and watching them splat on guards below.” (Beddor 20) These tricks are never supposed to be cruel, they...
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...and Helena’s love for Demetrius is stopped by his arrogant rejections and his “spotted and inconsistent” heart (Act 1, Scene 1, line 110). The disagreement between Hermia and her father lies in the fact that Egeus is arrogant in his position of power over Hermia, and he refuses to compromise. He states, “As she is mine, I may dispose of her” (Act 1, Scene 1, line 42). Egeus’ diction is hostile and patronizing; he uses the word “mine”, which takes away Hermia’s humanity, as if she were...
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...Imagination. This word is all too familiar, but what’s not so familiar is the true meaning of imagination and what it means to literacy. Yes, imagination is the thought process that leads to creativity, but is it possible to be creative without the basic principles of literacy? Mikala Lowe’s narrative, Charlie, and Katja Kleine’s Reading Without An Imagination argue that the answer to this question is no. Both authors have discovered the value of literacy in their own creativity. In order to appreciate the role of imagination in literacy, one must first learn to appreciate literacy itself. Imagination is defined as “the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses” (Lowe 3). Without...
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...Thomas: Mr. Thomas, who is know as Old Misery by the gang, is an older man who lives in No.3 one of the last homes that is still supported in the neighborhood, he leaves the house once a week to buy groceries. He trusts the boys to respect his house and property, he allows them to go into his yard only if they go through the house, cause he is all alone and company is grateful. Mr. Thomas believes in the old society were the youth respects the elder so he show T. around his house trusting him. Conflict /2: The conflict of "The Destructors" is man vs. society or Trevor vs Society. The gang have to deal with the results of World War II aftermath through their child and teenage years. They use their imagination to reconstruct scenes of violence, demonstrating the influence of their environment on them. The bombed area where they meet symbolizes this. They fight for the lower class by sneaking on bus for free rides, and against the upper class. Symbolism...
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...What Is Sociology According to The Sociology Imagination written by C. Wright Mills, our men now feel that their lives are a series of traps, that “people do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction(Mills),” and that people fail fail to see how history effects them individually. These observations can be considered as the practice of sociology in the modern world. Sociology is a study of human behavior, as we learn things from such a course, we discover how we can be wiser by ways of seeing the world around us. As what the author says in his article, he wants us to use our imaginations to wake our world up; to use our imaginations to change the issues that we have; to use our imaginations to think wisely about situations that are happening. Sociology imagination can affect everything in our life, such as unemployment, war, and marriage. As the author says, the unemployed rate goes up as the issues grow up. When one is unemployed, it is one’s own trouble. When millions of people become unemployed, this becomes our world’s problem. On the other hand, the war also effects upon our economic and political. War comes when ones only thinking how many benefits the war can bring to ones country, instead of considering what negative effects it brings. Also the marriage, it is not just a divorce. If everyone is getting a divorce, then the divorce rate goes up can causes so many problems among family and other...
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...Nature in Romanticism The Romantic Period came as a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and the rising emphasis on science and technology that the movement brought along. People traditionally living in the country now gathered into urbanized areas in hopes of employment as farmland gradually developed into factories (“Introduction”, Pages 5-7). As a result, cities became crowded and unsanitary as this sudden influx of population was not accounted for in city works. The lack of a citywide waste disposal system created an environment where litter dusted the streets and smog suffocated the populace (Wood). In the heavily industrialized cities of the time, flora and other greenery became a rare sight. The people of the late eighteenth century became rapidly disillusioned by their surroundings and yearned for the better days of the past where there was more space to breathe and distance themselves to find spiritual meaning in their life (Wood). The people sought for a refuge from the turmoil of society and found that coveted solitude in nature, which became idealized as a meditative sanctuary where people could go to reflect upon life or draw inspiration. Each writer of the Romantic period came upon different interpretations from their experiences with nature and these varying perspectives are reflected in their works. Pantheism was a very pervasive theme found in the works of the Romantic Period. This shared sentiment did not come as a surprise as nature became personal...
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...sequence or combination of notes: man is an “instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like the alternation of an ever-changing wind over an Aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to ever changing melody” (516). The reason is the “mind contemplating the relations borne by one thought to another, however produced” (516) and is expressed in logical discourse (e.g. scientific treatises). The reason “respects . . . differences” (516) and is thus particularly given to “analysis” (516). Another part of the mind, the ‘Imagination,’ has the capacity to add harmony to these thought-‘melodies’: there is a “principle within the human being, and perhaps all sentient beings, which acts otherwise than in the lyre, and produces not melody alone, but harmony, by an internal adjustment of the sounds or motions thus excited to the impressions which excite them” (516). The Imagination is “mind acting upon those thoughts [produced by the...
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...Age The Romantic Age consists of many different authors that come from many different backgrounds. The authors that make up this era never group themselves together. The focuses of various ideas throughout their works are why Victorian critics first identified this group of authors as “the Romantics” (Greenbalt 1418). Hays says the writers of this time period “were joined by shared ideals” and they “were, in many respects divided, but were also united by their oppositional politics, by the depth of their convictions, and by their youth” (xix). Another reason many critics group these particular authors together is the reoccurring themes they use throughout their stories and poems. Three main themes these romantic authors use are nature, imagination, and individualism. The Romantic Age writers focus on the theme of nature throughout many works. Keats directly compares writing and nature together by saying, “if poetry comes not as naturally as the Leaves to a tree it had better not come at all” (qtd. in Coombs 41). Romantic writers “were interested primarily in universals, in looking at nature as the mirror of universal truth seen not in its particulars, that is, in celandines, daisies, birds, one man’s life, or remote regions of the past, but rather in the ordered harmony of sun, moons, stars, and seasons, and in the lives of men in general” (Coleridge in his Time 31). Coombs also states nature “offers a completely new set of spiritual values” (40). Many writers during this time...
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...3. Give the child the frieze. 4. Let him lay out the frieze, give him the picture cards to match the frieze. COE: frieze Exercise 2. 3. Give the child the picture cards and ask him to arrange them as they are supposed to see them in the cards. 4. Lay them randomly on the floor and then arrange them by talking briefly on each picture starting from the one that comes first. COE: Visual Aim: 4. To help the child understand the life cycle of plants. 5. To identify the sequence of growth 6. To care for plants Age: 4years onward. Terminology Booklets The ability to imagine is a unique human experience and deserves to be nurtured and encouraged. Dr. Maria Montessori believed that the development of the child’s imagination and...
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...particular texts illuminate aspects of this title in a though-provoking way. In your argument refer closely to TWO of your prescribed texts and other texts of your own choosing Romanticism developed during the late 17th century in Europe, at a time in history when people were beginning to question society and their place within the world. The French and American revolutions represented a universal atmosphere of social tumult in which previously accepted social and political structures were becoming increasingly challenged. The French Revolution was influenced by Romantic ways of thinking such as what it means to achieve liberty for the individual. The romantic exploration of liberty for the individual through a connection to nature, imagination and spirituality through the sublime are represented in both Coleridge's poem Kubla Kahn and Keat’s “Ode to a Nightingale”. These romantic views were a direct reaction from the art of the enlightenment era as explored in the 1768 painting of Agrippina Landing at Brundisium, emotional stoicism is represented as being a model for morality in society. Revolutionary questioning of the fundamental nature of humanity and change for women was explored in Mary Wollstonecraft's text "A vindication in the rights of women". The 1768 painting by Benjamin West of Agrippina landing at Brundisium depicts the qualities of the Enlightenment that the romantics rebelled against. The neoclassical painting was popular during the enlightenment as it stressed...
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...Jenny Chen Professor Mookerjee Basic Composition 100R Section QF October 01, 2015 Paper 2- Final Draft Imagination vs Reality When it comes to imagination versus reality, the processes in the brain are different. But just how different are they? Our mind can run away with us, leading us to act through suspicion or fear, but we can also use our imagination as a tool to change our life. Humans have tended to draw a line between reality—that which we “actually” experience—and imagination, seen as a frivolous, dreamlike deflection. For ages, spiritual contemplatives and artists have taken flights of imagination much more seriously and challenged the firmness of that line. It is just like how imagination plays a very real role in our decision making. Take for example, our last two US presidential elections, in which one big chunk of the electorate managed to view Barack Obama as a radical socialist, while another saw him as a moderate saint. Both views were heavily based on myth, but they had a real-life effect on how people voted. By understanding Wendell Berry’s text, “God, Science, and Imagination,” and juxtaposing it to Susan Blackmore’s analysis of the “replicator power” of “memes,” it is evident that imagination and meme fear have gained over us. Seeing the two author’s ideas merge can enlighten readers to realize that the “ideals” that Berry presents in his argument of “fundamentalism” versus “knowledge” are only memes of what we want to think instead of the memes that...
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