Question

Imagination, according to Coleridge, reflects:

• A. Divine creative power
• B. Scientific reasoning
• C. Historical accuracy
• D. Ethical principles

Answer 1

Answer:

A. Divine creative power

According to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, imagination is the process of organizing sense impressions into a pattern. He believed that imagination reflects the mind's ability to perceive order and harmony in the world. 

Coleridge believed that imagination has two parts: primary and secondary. 

• Primary imagination

  This is the unconscious ability to perceive the world through the senses. It's the basic ability to see and organize stimuli. Coleridge believed that primary imagination is a divine quality that creates the self. 

• Secondary imagination

  This is the conscious ability to shape and unite perceptions into new forms. It's the creative faculty that poets use to create art. Coleridge believed that secondary imagination is more active and conscious than primary imagination. 

Coleridge believed that imagination is the source of our ideas of perfection. He also believed that imagination is the key to the writing process.