➢ Name: Gausvami surbhi A.➢ Paper: 3 ➢ Subject: “Nature and function of the poem according to

colridge”➢ Batch year: 2016-18➢ Roll no: 32➢ Enrollment no: 2069108420170008➢ Submited to: Dr. Dilip Barad ➢ Bhavnagar University

➢Samuel colridge was literary poet, critic and philosopher.

➢ Colridge's view of poetry has been elaborated in “the biographia literaria”.

➢ He poses a number of questions regarding the nature and function of poetry and then answers them.

➢ Colridge starts his disscution with the differense between prose and poem

➢ The differense between poem and prose cannot lie in the medium, for each employs the same medium words.

➢ The differense lie in their purpose.

Nature and function of the poem:

➢ According to colridge poem is a composition in which the rhyme and the metre contains a organic relation to the total work.

➢ Poem's aim is definitely to give pleasure.

➢ All the parts of poem including metre, rhyme, diction, and theme must harmonise with the wholeness of the composition.

➢ Pleasure arising from the parts and this pleasure of the parts supports and increases the pleasure of the whole.

➢ Not only End but entire journey of the reading poem is important.

Major difference between prose and poem

● Poem

● The aim of poem is to please.

● Prose

● The immediate object of the prose is to give truth.

Diffinition of the poem by different poets

● Macaulay: “ The art of doing by means of words what painter does by means of colours”

● Wordsworth: “ poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions that recollected in tranquility”

● Dr. johnson: “ Metrical composition”

● P.b. shelly: “The expression of the imagination”