Imaginative journey, including coleridge

This understanding of journey is supported by numerous texts including Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" and "Frost at Midnight", Robert Frost "The Road Not Taken", Ovids "The Four Ages", and "Contact" directed by Robert Zemeckis.

"Kubla Khan" is very indicative of the Romantic ideal which emphasizes the subjective, the irrational, the spontaneous, the transcendental, and the imagination. The Romanticism movement had a deepened appreciation for the beauty of nature and the bias for emotion over reason, and thus Coleridge aims to make sense of the world through poetry using means other than the typical rational mentality.

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Ovid specifically uses personification to encourage the responder to sympathies with “mother earth”, “good giver of all the bounty of the harvest, was asked for more; they dug into her vitals.

People have always been fascinated with their ability to think and conjecture. ” It is once again in the third stanza that the persona’s description changes to take a religious stance “a miracle of rare device. Ovid superficially structures his text in a way that allows his imagination to reflect on the manner in which our world has changed, which is extremely similar to the way in which Robert Zemeckis has structured his film to allow his imagination to predict the ever so common and universalized question of life “ why am I here” which to the rational world is unanswerable. Zemeckis demonstrates this imaginative notion introspectively through certain cinematographic elements, thus the way in which the initial mise en scene illustrates a specter of the universe convey’s the limitless ideals behind space but further more the limitless elements of the imagination which allows the audience to further transcend outside all logic extending to the outer reaches of space.

This notion supports Coleridge’s decision to use “chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flial” to describe the dome and its environment. The extended metaphor “two roads diverged in a yellow wood …… to where it bent in the undergrowth” collaborates with Coleridge’s extended metaphor in “Kubla Khan” of the river. ” The river is linked to the complexities of life with its surreal calm facade hiding its deep turmoil beneath. ”

Robert Frost draws a large amount of emphasis from the faculty of his imagination, for it is through the knowledge and wisdom he gains on his journey that allows him to speculate the possibilities of the journey that might have been, “sorry I could not travel both And looked down one as far as I could” where he contemplates, but does not partake upon. Such imaginative journeys are valued as they can appeal to an audience not only because of the journey but because of what the journey may reveal about the potential of humanity.

This universal question that has been governed through the intangible elements of life can not be answered by the classical conformed elements of society for it transcends past all reason, thus it is only when this long held question is collaborated with the figment of our imagination that it is possible for humanity to make an attempt at answering the unanswerable. Coleridge’s beliefs in nature and the supernatural is reflected in the river “sacred river.

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