What is the difference between poetic genius and poetic talent according tom Coleridge?
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Coleridge says that a poem contains the elements as a prose composition. ... Coleridge distinguishes a poem from in his 'Biographia Literaria' by saying that poetry is a wider than a poem poetry is an activity of poet's min but a poem is merely one of the form of expression.
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In chapter XV of the Biographia Literaria, Coleridge critically examines Shakespeare's early works, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, and elucidates the specific symptoms of poetic power.
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He distinguishes between genius and talent by making them identical to imagination and fancy. Like imagination, genius is creative, and latter is, like fancy, merely combinatory. Genius is inborn and talent acquired.
The following are the four ways that manifest the real poetic genius, according to Coleridge;
1. Sense of Musical delight: It is the outward manifestation of the music in the poet's soul. The man without music in his soul never be a genuine poet. The sense of musical delight is a gift of imagination.
2. Choice of the subjects: where the subject is taken immediately from the author's sensations and experiences.
3. The shaping and Modifying Power of Imagination: A poet's pictures of life are not faithful copies, accurately rendered in words. They become poetic 'only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by the passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from poet's own spirit'.
4. Depth and Energy of Thought: Wordsworth has said, 'Poems to which any value can be attached were never produced or any variety of subjects but by a man, who being possessed of more than usual organic sensibility, had also thought long and deeply (Preface of 1800). Coleridge agrees. "No man", he says, "was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher". What such a man feels in a moment of inspiration, howsoever powerfully, is naturally modified and directed by what he has thought long and deeply. Unless inspiration occurs to a contemplative mind, it must lack what gives it strength – depth and energy of thought". Poetry, for Coleridge, is 'the union of deep feelings', not only pleases but elevates. What makes distinct Coleridge from his contemporary critics is his psychological approach to literary problems. T S Eliot pointed out in his work 'The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism’ that with the help of his profound knowledge in philosophy and metaphysics, Coleridge did more than any of his predecessors ' to bring attention to the profundity of the philosophic problems into which the study of poetry may take us'.