'Kubla Khan' and 'Fall of Hyperion' : A Surrealistic approach to Coleridge and Keats

<p>English Romantic poets of 19th century<br>had a special feature i.e. imagination,<br>which make them unique and versatile.<br>But Blake, Coleridge and Keats have<br>surpassed this type of imagination and<br>redefined it as, “four folded visions”,<br>“secondary imagination” and “Negative<br>capability” respectively. English<br>Romanticists have revived the concept of<br>imagination, and subjectivity. They<br>believed that a poet is slave of ‘I’, and<br>Keats is usually tagged with being an<br>objective poet. What Coleridge means by<br>Secondary imagination, is the synonym<br>with what Keats’ believes in Negative<br>capability. Subjectivity is the first pillar of<br>poets flight to new horizons of<br>imagination; first stage of connecting<br>oneself with ultimate beauty or to infinite<br>“I". It is the beginning of the poetic<br>journey. It is through poets’ self that he is<br>elevated to another stage. Once he<br>understands the secrets of the ultimate<br>creativity, he has to surrender this I, but<br>this I is the vehicle which takes him on his<br>back to Infinite I am or the ultimate<br>beauty. A new world of extra ordinary<br>definitions. A dream world, a world of<br>magic or a world where poet forgets his<br>self and achieves the ultimate union of<br>truth and beauty. Where beauty becomes<br>paradise, human feelings are subservient to<br>the desired union; where poet forgets his<br>physical being and creates a magical world<br>of beauty and truth.<br>Surrealism, a movement that began in<br>Paris in the 1920s. It was created in direct<br>response to the horrors of the First World<br>War and to the relatively restrictive<br>conventions of the art world at the time.<br>The point of Surrealism was to bridge the<br>conscious and unconscious mind, to<br>liberate the subconscious, and to get at the<br>heart of what art could truly be when it<br>was not constrained by convention. An<br>artist relies on visions and dreams.<br>Through his sub conscious he reaches to<br>a world of visions and imagination. The<br>paper aims to prove that Coleridge and<br>Keats have a different way of looking<br>towards imagination they connect this kind<br>of imagination with Surrealism of late 19th<br>century. Both poets (Coleridge& Keats)<br>and Surrealist take a special flight through<br>their imagination and dreams and achieve<br>goals of art and beauty.</p>