The Power of Imagination
What The Power of Imagination means in English Literature A-Level, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The 'viewless wings of Poesy' through which the speaker joins the immortal bird, later collapsing in the poem's ambiguous final question.
The Romantic belief that the imagination is restorative and acts as a vehicle for transcending physical limitations.
Topics that use The Power of Imagination
- 5c. Component 01 – Drama and poetry pre-1900 selected poems - Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Selected Poems (OCR A-Level)
- Component 3: Poetry – Section B: Specified Poetry Pre- or Post-1900 – Pre-1900 – The Romantic Period – English Romantic Verse, editor David Wright (Penguin Classics, 1973) (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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