What is poetry? What is a poet?

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What is poetry?What is a poet?
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Power of poetry

• Awake the readers interest through a
  faithfulness to nature
• Use the power of imagination to colour and
  interpret events

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Poetry of nature

• Poems on supernatural themes (Coleridge)
• Poems on ordinary life (Wordsworth)

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supernatural

• thanks to use of imagination the poet makes
  supernatural events real. This happens through
  the suspension of disbelief.

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Ordinary life

• Through the power of imagination the poet gives
  new colours and new dignity to ordinary things
  that become poetry.

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What/who is the poet?

• In Coleridges view the poet is able to melt in
  his work (through his poetic genius) the general
  with the specific, the natural with the
  supernatural.