tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post5085225863473279091..comments2024-03-28T12:59:41.910-04:00Comments on NeverEnding Story: Poetic Musings: Corpse of Loneliness Tanka by Chen-ou LiuChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐http://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-55491640805951817652013-10-16T14:52:19.173-04:002013-10-16T14:52:19.173-04:00In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge wrote:
The tho...In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge wrote:<br /><br />The thought suggested itself (to which of us I do not recollect) that a series of poems might be composed of two sorts. In the one, incidents and agents were to be, in part at least, supernatural, and the excellence aimed at was to consist in the interesting of the affections by the dramatic truth of such emotions, as would naturally accompany such situations, supposing them real. And real in this sense they have been to every human being who, from whatever source of delusion, has at any time believed himself under supernatural agency. For the second class, subjects were to be chosen from ordinary life...In this idea originated the plan of the 'Lyrical Ballads'; in which it was agreed, that my endeavours should be directed to persons and characters supernatural, or at least Romantic; yet so as to transfer from our inward nature a human interest and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of imagination that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. ... With this view I wrote the 'Ancient Mariner'.<br /><br />You can read a detailed analysis of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner at http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section1.rhtmlChen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-786207835641480928.post-42481973484807777892013-10-16T08:49:13.603-04:002013-10-16T08:49:13.603-04:00You can read the full text of The Rime of the Anci...You can read the full text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173253Chen-ou Liu, 劉鎮歐https://www.blogger.com/profile/06235248170011255532noreply@blogger.com