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Lecture Literary criticism - Lecture 21: Metrical composition

Coleridge throws light on the difference between the language of metrical composition and that of prose. He is of the opinion the Wordsworth views about language are impracticable. The power of making the selection implies the previous possession of the language selected,the reproduction of words only,but order in which they are used. | METRICAL COMPOSITION Coleridge throws light on the difference between the language of metrical composition and that of prose.He is of the opinion the Wordsworth views about language are impracticable. The power of making the selection implies the previous possession of the language selected,the reproduction of words only,but order in which they are used. This order is defective in the case of the uneducated person because he lacks the prospective ness of mind which enables one to foresee the whole of what one is to convey. Coleridge illustrates from Wordsworth poems how common words are used,but not in the order in which the rustic would use them. Coleridge elaborates Wordsworth’s sentence,there neither is,nor can be any essential difference between the language o prose and metrical composition. He points out that the language of prose differs in itself according to the purpose for which it its used the prose of argumentative works differs from the language of conversation. In Italy . | METRICAL COMPOSITION Coleridge throws light on the difference between the language of metrical composition and that of prose.He is of the opinion the Wordsworth views about language are impracticable. The power of making the selection implies the previous possession of the language selected,the reproduction of words only,but order in which they are used. This order is defective in the case of the uneducated person because he lacks the prospective ness of mind which enables one to foresee the whole of what one is to convey. Coleridge illustrates from Wordsworth poems how common words are used,but not in the order in which the rustic would use them. Coleridge elaborates Wordsworth’s sentence,there neither is,nor can be any essential difference between the language o prose and metrical composition. He points out that the language of prose differs in itself according to the purpose for which it its used the prose of argumentative works differs from the language of conversation. In Italy and Greece they have not set aside a separate body of words for poetry,but the same words and phrases are put under new grabs by declining and conjugating them in a particular way. Coleridge considers the exact significance of the words essential difference as used by Wordsworth.The word essence can mean one of the two things,the inmost principle of a thing which particularizes it,the point of difference or distinction between two modifications of the same subject.Wordsworth has used the word in the latter sense.It maybe that in some cases,what is beautifully expresses in metre,may stand equally beautiful when stated in prose in the same words.But generally it is not so. Coleridge reflects on the origin and effect of metre.He contends that in both cases for the unfitness of each(language of prose and that of poetry) for the place of other frequently will and ought to exist. He advances five points to explain this.First Coleridge ascribes the origin of metre to the spontaneous effort of