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compound. In mixture, a number of ingredients are mixed up, but they do not lose their
individual properties. They still exits as separate items. In a compound, the different ingredients
combine to form something new. They lose their respective properties and fuse together to create
something entirely different. Similarly, where fancy is working, images lie separate; where
imagination is at work, images are used into one.
Conclusion
Coleridge is the first critic to distinguish between Imagination and Fancy. He is the first critic to
study the nature of imagination and examine its role in creative activity. The distinction between
imagination and fancy could not become popular, yet Coleridges theory is important. It is
important because he was a poet of great technical refinement, and he used his experience for his
theorizing about poetry.