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| Author(s): |
Alipio Correia de Franca Neto
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2011-05-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Viviana Bosi;
Maria Silvia Betti;
Paulo Fernando Henriques Britto;
John Milton;
Maria Clara Bonetti Paro
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| Advisor: | Viviana Bosi |
| Abstract | |
This study aims to show that the poem \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\", first published in 1798 by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), is an artistic representation of the concept of romantic reverie. Starting with the subtitle of the poem, \"A poet\'s reverie\", added to The Rime by Coleridge in one of its subsequent editions, the study will attempt to show that the concept of \"reverie\", in this case, corresponds to a shared general vision held by several authors of the time, who considered the \"reverie\" a type of \"disturbance of the imagination\", or an intermediate state between sleep and wakefulness, as the poet himself described it. Accordingly, the study will go on to identify the subjective modes and concepts around romantic imagination by touching on some sources that Coleridge used in the creation of his own theory of \"imagination\", a word that, for him, was a real burden in terms of both speculation and technical meaning, and which serves as an axis around which the general method of his writing on art and philosophy revolves, in addition to being the \"defense of a given attitude of life and reality\" for the poet on a personal level. This approach may be helpful examining the \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\", not just for the fact that Coleridge\'s poetry goes hand-in-hand with his theoretical writings, but, as the long tradition of the Rime\'s exegeses would demonstrate, especially because of the fact that Coleridge\'s own reference to the poem as being a work of \"pure imagination\" directly highlights the necessity to try and explain its formal and thematic aspects from the context of this theory. Besides this, the influences that Coleridge received from his contemporaries and the literary scene at the beginning of 19th Century England, of which he was a part, will be traced, along with the aspects of idealist philosophy and the organist leaning in the creation of his imagination theory that also influenced him. As this theory is in fact closely related to the concept of the \"organic\" work that was in fashion - a closed structure in which all the parts are mutually explained - the study will have as its main theme an analysis of The Rime, where the concepts thoroughly developed in Coleridge\'s theoretical work will be used to make sense of the symmetrical strategy present in the poem, and it will be shown that his imagination, metaphoric and radical symbolism an aspect that applies to many of his poems - are at the service of what could be called the reverie technique, or the \"waking dream\". The final chapter will draw on research concerning the legacy of Coleridge\'s poetic work and critical writings, and his influence on subsequent generations of poets and critics. (AU) | |