World Poetry Day

  Imagination was linked to the concepts of emotions, feelings and passions from its early accounts. Imagination was considered as the faculty that generates images that are associated with feelings, passions, desires, aversions, and the like called “emotional states”. The close connection between images and emotions and feelings related to them, and the fact that each mind has its own volume of images sets up different imaginations for different people. Every poet/author connects his own passions, emotions and feelings to the images he creates. The phenomenon implies the existence of more than one mode of imagination in poetry and literature. Imagination was initially considered similar to memory as it was thought to mediate the reproductive images of mental realities rather than those of sensory realities. This conceptualization highlights some dimensions of imagination that were developed later when imagination became distinct from memory. This position associates imagination wi...

This   research characterizes and conceptualizes a series of modes of imagination in contemporary poetry and literature: Prosaic imagination , Pictorial imagination , Fancy imagination , Fancy-realistic imagination , and Poetic imagination . These modes have been drawn from the existing notions and concepts of poetic imagination. The definitions of these modes signify that some of them embrace more poetical and imaginative imagination. These modes of imagination are, however, not distinctively separate from each other as some characteristics and features are shared albeit with fine and subtle variations. These modes are described below Prosaic imagination is characterized with non-pictorial images that cause a sense of matter-of-factness that reduces imaginative aspects of the poem. There are too many abstractions in image making process which makes the poem look like a good prose composition that has been cut off into line lengths. The idea of this mode of imagination is based o...

  My research in the concepts, theories and ideas of imagination in poetry and literature discovered the account of the existence of other modes of imagination apart from poetic imagination in contemporary poetry and literature. These modes of creative imagination as discussed in the previous section include: Prosaic imagination, Pictorial imagination, Fancy imagination, Fancy-realistic imagination, and Poetic imagination .As such a significant contribution of the research is that it determines a structured continuum termed here as Imaginium for contemporary notions of poetic imagination. The term Imaginium is configured using the combination of two semantic concepts : imagination and continuum . Imaginium epitomizes the continuum-nature and structure of the conceptualizations for the study of imagination. This research indicates that imagination in poetry and literature can be organized as a continuum with imaging on one end, and poetic imagination on the other. Other modes of ...