Coleridge: Biographia Literaria

 This post is in the reference to the questions asked here:
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          Biographia Literaria, in full Biographia Literaria; or Biographiacal Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, work by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in two volumes in 1817. Another edition of the work, to which Coleridge's daughter Sara appended notes and supplementary biographical material, was published in 1847.

          The first volume of the book recounts the author's friendship with poets Robert Southey and William Wordsworth. Coleridge goes on to describe the influences on his philosophical development, from his early teachers to such philosophers as Immanuel Kant, Johann Ficte and Friedrich von Schelling. This section includes his well-known discussion of the difference between fancy and imagination. In the second volume Coleridge concentrates on literary criticism and proposes theories about the creative process and the historical sources of the elements of poetry.

          Biographia Literaria was the most important work of literary criticism of the English Romantic period, combining Philosophy and literary criticism in a new way and it was lasting influential.

Q1.   Write in your words the difference between poem and prose.

Ans.  The poem and prose has the similar elements like language, events or thoughts. The major difference is between their objectives.

          Prose is a work in which the events are arranged in an order and has an end. It's aim is to give information to the reader about the truth. On the other hand, poem is a piece of an art in which the truth is created through imagination. It's aim is to delight the readers. Prose has simple language, while poem has ornamental language with rhyme and meter.

          This way we can know about the difference between poem and prose. I feel that prose are more informative and poems are mostly to have pleasure or delight to the readers.

Q2.   Write in your words the difference between poem and poetry.

Ans.  Poetry is the use of words and language to evoke a writer's feelings and thoughts, while a poem is the arrangement of these words. Poetry is the process of creating a literary piece using metaphor, symbols and ambiguity, while a poem is the end result of this process.

Q3.   Give illustration to support your answer.

Ans.  Any kind of art can be taken as an example. If we take any painting as an example because as per Coleridge said that highest kind of poetry may exist without meter and it is a activity of mind. This work of an art is also a creative of mind. That's why it can be considered as poetry.

         So it can be said that the prose and poem are not only distinguished by rhyme or meter but their immediate and ultimate goal makes them different. when poem is a form of poetry and poetry is the art of creating poem.