 Ma'am please make a video on Coleridge, ma'am I cannot understand rhyme of ancient Mariner, ma'am what is imagination and fancy ma'am please make a video on Coleridge Hi guys, welcome to my channel, Lamar Pratakarva and I was just going through the comment section of my YouTube videos and guess what I found? I found that almost everybody has requested me to make a video on Coleridge fine then let's make the most requested video today in this video I shall be talking about Coleridge's life about his most famous works and I'll also be looking at Coleridge as a critic so let's start so Coleridge was a star since beginning like he started reading at the age of 3 and by the age of 5 he has completed reading Bible and Arabian Nights he was also quite influenced by the other writers who were living in his period specifically he met Charles Lam when he visited London and he met him in a school Charity School and Charles Lam was so inspired by this meeting that he wrote an essay talking about his meeting with Coleridge and the essay is titled as Christ Hospital 5 and 30 years ago then he also met Robert Saudi who is another fellow romantic poet and with whom he started to build a utopian society for which he named Pantysochresi so this was the utopian society which Saudi and Coleridge wanted to build but then the venture was not successful people did not come and live there so it was a failure but then Coleridge did not lose hope he then befriended William Wordsworth which whom he started to write his first poetry and the collection of poetry was published as Lyrical Ballads and Lyrical Ballads is the first romantic poetry collection which marks the beginning of the era of Romanticism very few people know that Coleridge has also started a paper which is called Friend and this paper was devoted to truth and liberty apart from that if you look at the life of Coleridge it was not always a bed of roses because he suffered from various diseases and he took opium as a painkiller so that it can help him to feel the pain less and that is how he became an opium addict apart from that he also suffered from bipolar disorder so his mood swings were a lot for Coleridge apart from all these things when after so many challenges, so many difficulties in his life Coleridge wrote some of the most amazing poems and that is the reason why he is regarded as Sage of Highgate this was a question in September 2013 when they asked that who is called Sage of Highgate and it is Samuel Taylor Coleridge who is regarded as the Sage of Highgate Highgate is a place where he lived and that is why he is called Sage of Highgate Coleridge has written a lot of poems like Christabel, Frost at Midnight and the most important one is Rime of the Ancient Mariner Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem which is celebrated as a literary classic and there is this beautiful line in the poem that water water everywhere and all the ships did sink water water everywhere and not any drop to drink this is a beautiful line where he kind of tells us that in spite of having so much water around the people on the ship they were dying of thirst so that is the ironical thing which is there in the poem and this poem was particularly inspired by James Cook's second voyage of exploration what we don't know about this poem is that the poem is divided in seven parts this was asked in June 2013 and when I read this question for the first time I was amazed because almost every time I read this poem I tend to look at certain important factors but never did it occur to me to check out how many parts is this poem in so do remember this particular thing about the poem that the poem is divided in seven parts apart from that Coleridge has written a lot of other poems like Kubla Khan and then Christabel these two poems are in fragment and Kubla Khan especially it was inspired from an opium dream that he had I cover all these poems in detail in my online audio course so if you are really willing to prepare for UGC net English then you can go to my website and check the list of writers I use in order to complete the syllabus of UGC net English so you can find the details on my website about my course we are providing online mock test series as well with the course so you can join the mock test as well as you can join the course so that you can prepare in a full-fledged manner for UGC net English we all know Coleridge as a poet but very few of us are aware of the fact that Coleridge has also written a play the play's name is Osorio Osorio is a play which was written by Coleridge actually it was originally written in 1797 and later he changed the title and he published it again after 16 years and the new title was Remorse so now the play that we know is Remorse the original play was Osorio and the title was later changed by Coleridge himself the play talks about this man Osorio who is led by temptation and in the process of that path following that path of temptation he commits a lot of sins we all know that Coleridge and Wordsworth together published the great book of poetry collection that was called Lyrical Ballads and in this Lyrical Ballads Coleridge specifically contributed four poems namely Rhyme of Ancient Mariner the second one was Foster Mother's Tale the third was Dungeon and the fourth was Nightingale apart from the poetry Lyrical Ballad also contains a preface which Wordsworth describes his theory of poetry saying that poetry is spontaneous overflow of emotion recollected in tranquility and when you look at the essays of Coleridge and when you look at the letters of Coleridge you will find that Coleridge has claimed his share in the theories of Lyrical Ballad saying that these theories are half the child of my brain so Coleridge said for the Lyrical Ballad theories that it is a mutual theory written both by Wordsworth and Coleridge but later in his life we find that he criticised the same political views of Wordsworth in his own collection of essays which is called Biographia Literaria in Biographia Literaria he has criticised the theories of Wordsworth and he has also written some amazing critical essays talking about his own theory so we have really amazing theories given by Coleridge like imagination and fancy primary and secondary imagination willing suspension of disbelief so all these are a part of Biographia Literaria apart from that he has also written essays on Shakespeare so these essays are collected as lectures on Shakespeare in which he critically analyses Shakespeare's play and poems so in this video I would like to talk about one of the political concepts given by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which is willing suspension of disbelief now I hope you must have read or watched the movie Twilight and when you watch the movie or read the book you will find that the story centres around the vampire we all know that the vampires don't exist in real life but still we love watching that movie again and again we love reading that book again and again why? because when we are reading the book we keep aside our rational thoughts we keep aside all our logical mind and thoughts connected to it which tells us that such things can never exist in real life so for the sake of the pleasure of literature we have to keep aside our rational thoughts and involve ourselves into the fictional world only then we will be able to experience the world we would be experiencing the writing this is what Samuel Taylor Coleridge calls as willing suspension of disbelief when you willingly suspend your disbeliefs we were kids when we used to watch cartoons and in those cartoons we used to see talking cars and flying monkeys now we knew that such things never exist but still for the sake of getting into that world for the sake of getting pleasure out of watching those things we used to suspend our disbeliefs we know that nothing like that happens in real life but still we keep our logical mind aside and experience that experience and that is how you take the full experience of a piece of literature this is what Coleridge calls as willing suspension of disbelief so in this short video I tried to give you some important information related to Coleridge's life I also tried my level best to ignite the fire of romanticism in your heart my 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