Title: Discuss how Wordsworth gives importance to imagination. (P.U. 1997) – NeoEnglish: www.profnaeem.com
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Discuss how Wordsworth gives importance to imagination. (P.U. 1997)
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Content: It helps the poet to dig deep into the core of human existence and to get at universal truths. These appeal to us quite instinctively. This is what separates the poetic truth from scientific truth. Imagination transforms the apparent world into a world of higher import. The poet conceives the essential nature of his object and sees it in its basic reality. He is a philosopher. Wordsworth never ignores the importance of thought and reason. He calls imagination a ‘higher reason’ –’reason in her most exalted mood’. He stresses on the importance of imagination in the process poetic creation. For him, it is the most important gift that a poet can have.