Pieces of work which involve the interplay of imagination and the human experience often are texts from the Romantic period. The Romantic period occurred from the late 18th to the early 19th centuries. It was a time of development in the arts and ways of thinking, with paradigms such as the imagination and placing an emphasis on the human experience and individuals leading both the creation and the content of many prolific pieces of work including Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelly, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) and Frost at Midnight (1798) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Ghost of a Flea (1819) by William Blake.
Coleridge uses both his own imagination and a personas imagination in two of his pieces to create a meaningful piece of work. …show more content…
Coleridge, in contrast to Frost at Midnight, is the individual who has used their imagination to create meaning or a piece of work. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, created from experimentations with medieval oral ballads and the notion of a cautionary tale, is a lengthy, narrative poem. The poem follows the tale of the Ancient Mariner whom originally shoots and kills an albatross. This kill then proceeds to haunt him, both emotionally and metaphysically when his other crew members die, a ship “Without a breeze, without a tide” appears with DEATH and LIFE-IN-DEATH aboard and then his own ship sails uncontrolled. This unique poem at the time was effective in engaging the audience to listen to the ideas Coleridge might be trying to share – to respect the balance of nature and that only true repentance can restore the balance. Isolating the mariner on the ship after his crew mates die gives the mariner an opportunity to grow and develop, allowing for final …show more content…
The novel was conceived in a dream, immediately making it a production of untamed imagination. Shelly is reflected in the novel by Victor Frankenstein. Victor’s own imagination transcends reality and goes from just being an imagination to being reality in the form of the Monster. He rebels against all known scientific authority to create his monster and instead of creating the scientific masterpiece he desired he instead creates an atrocity. Shelly can be seen as commenting on the limitations of the human experience and what pushing the boundaries of human limitations can lead
Coleridge uses both his own imagination and a personas imagination in two of his pieces to create a meaningful piece of work. …show more content…
Coleridge, in contrast to Frost at Midnight, is the individual who has used their imagination to create meaning or a piece of work. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, created from experimentations with medieval oral ballads and the notion of a cautionary tale, is a lengthy, narrative poem. The poem follows the tale of the Ancient Mariner whom originally shoots and kills an albatross. This kill then proceeds to haunt him, both emotionally and metaphysically when his other crew members die, a ship “Without a breeze, without a tide” appears with DEATH and LIFE-IN-DEATH aboard and then his own ship sails uncontrolled. This unique poem at the time was effective in engaging the audience to listen to the ideas Coleridge might be trying to share – to respect the balance of nature and that only true repentance can restore the balance. Isolating the mariner on the ship after his crew mates die gives the mariner an opportunity to grow and develop, allowing for final …show more content…
The novel was conceived in a dream, immediately making it a production of untamed imagination. Shelly is reflected in the novel by Victor Frankenstein. Victor’s own imagination transcends reality and goes from just being an imagination to being reality in the form of the Monster. He rebels against all known scientific authority to create his monster and instead of creating the scientific masterpiece he desired he instead creates an atrocity. Shelly can be seen as commenting on the limitations of the human experience and what pushing the boundaries of human limitations can lead