Imaginative Journeys
'It is good to have an end to journey towards,but it is the journey that matters in the end.'A journey is an arbitrary, cyclic conduit to which no end can be foreseen. The arrival of a journey is not the end, simply a reflection on the events thus far, a pause in the eternal flight of life and beyond. It is the journey that provides us with knowledge and experience and the arrival is simply an element of that, thus, it is the journey, not the arrival that ultimately matters. The fantastical, speculative nature of imaginary journeys has enables composers to probe beyond convention, questioning human existence and transporting the responder beyond our physical confines into an alternate world. Nature is the portal to the imagination. As humans, we connect with its spirituality, as it is our stepping-stone to the divine and all that is beyond our concrete, physical world. William Blake expressed the idea in his lines, "To see a world in a grain of sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower," clearly showing that through the contemplation and presence of nature, our minds are able to cross into the imaginative world. Nature is the portal to the imagination. Romanticism was a reaction against the earlier period of c
Logic and rationality took precedence in any form of written expression. In the second verse paragraph of the poem he recalls experiencing this kind of thought more powerfully in childhood. It is all alone in the sky, far away from other clouds; it doesn't have any defined direction - just floats on its own above the landscape. The structure of the text is nonlinear and disjointed imitating the movement of the mind. However, while the poem conforms to many of the guiding principles of Romanticism, it also highlights a key difference between Coleridge and his fellow Romantics, specifically William Wordsworth. Atwood effectively examines the journey of the human psyche by comparing it to familiar landscapes. A Poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company. The hypnotic atmosphere in the first two stanzas is created with the use of phrases like 'fluttering' and references to the transparent film above a flame, each, carrying mesmerizing connotations. Coleridge, on the other hand, was raised in London, "pent 'mid cloisters dim," and questions Wordsworth's easy identification of childhood with a kind of automatic, original happiness; instead, in this poem he says that, as a child, he "saw naught lovely but the stars and sky" and seems to feel the lingering effects of that alienation. Her fascination with the bizarre fluidity of identity and its mystery is the focus of this poem. The natural presence of frost initiates powerful images of a cold, northern, winter setting, whilst the connotations of beauty, power and superciliousness associated with the frost gives the reader the impression that nature is an element above humanity. The sound imagery throughout the poem is erratic, with no pattern or structure, which reflects what the poet is saying.
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