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Essay / The Concept of Imagination in Samuel Coleridge's Poetry
(43-46) As we look at line 46, "Passion and life, whose fountains are within", Coleridge indicated that this line of poetry was symbolized by the search for passion and life through the imagination of the fountains within us, which is connected to God. William Wordsworth, a famous romantic poet, used imagination throughout his poetry. He also believes that imagination comes from the mind. Wordsworth describes that the cruelty that people see is not what we saw when we were a little child, but what we see when we are older. As a child we see a princess movie. We either want to be a princess (girls) or a knight (boys). “Shaped by himself with a newly learned art/a wedding or a festival” (92-93). The common path of our lives lies between us and our happiness; as a child we do not feel pain and/or despair. Furthermore, he describes that human beings are born connected to God and nature, but that when humans grow up, they lose this connection because they began to believe the information they stored.