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Invoking the Imagination

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Imagination and Fantasy in Alchemy

The swan is often associated with the arts and the life of the imagination. The alchemists, as we saw, called these two levels, Imaginatio and Fantasia. Samuel Taylor Collaridge calls the imagination the living power and prime agent of all human perception. In Mary Oliver's poem, this living power is embodied in the image of a swans making its way to shore.

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