Editing Negative capability (section)

==Prepoetry==
Negative capability could also be understood as just one of a number of moods competing in the poet's mind before a poem arrives, i.e. during the phase that may be called "prepoetry", after the musical form of the same name which delights in 'uncertainties, mysteries, [and] doubts'.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pre-poetry|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jzYB7g8ISzQ&noapp=1 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/jzYB7g8ISzQ| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=24 November 2020|website=Youtube| date=5 March 2018 }}{{cbignore}}</ref> At one point Coleridge thought of the poet as Truth's Ventriloquist.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hodgson|first=John|date=1999|title=An Other Voice: Ventriloquism in the Romantic Period|url=https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/ron/2007-n45-ron428/005878ar/|journal=Romanticism on the Net|language=en|issue=16|pages=0|doi=10.7202/005878ar|issn=1467-1255|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
One way to approach the subject could be through the words of poets themselves, e.g.:

"Emotion recollected in tranquility"<ref name="wordsworth">{{Cite web |last=William Wordsworth |date=2022-08-23 |title=Famous Prefaces. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |url=https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/hc/prefaces-and-prologues/105903 |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=Collection at Bartleby.com |language=en-US}}</ref> and "wise passivity" (e.g. Wordsworth), "the systematic derangement of the senses" <ref name="rimbaud">{{Cite web |title=Rimbaud's Systematic Derangement of the Senses |url=https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques/rimbauds-systematic-derangement-of-the-senses.php |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=LanguageIsAVirus.com |language=en}}</ref> (e.g. Rimbaud), "Automatic writing and thought transference"<ref name="yeats">{{Cite web |title=W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": Automatic Script |url=https://www.yeatsvision.com/AS.html |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=www.yeatsvision.com}}</ref> (e.g. Yeats), and "Frenzy"<ref>{{Cite web|title=poetic frenzy - definition - English|url=https://glosbe.com/|access-date=24 November 2020|website=Glosbe|language=en}}</ref> (e.g. Shakespeare).

{{poem quote
|source=''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', Act V scene 1, from line 1841<ref>{{Cite web|title=Midsummer Night's Dream, Act V, Scene 1 :{{!}}: Open Source Shakespeare|url=https://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=midsummer&Act=5&Scene=1&Scope=scene|access-date=2020-11-24|website=www.opensourceshakespeare.org}}</ref>
|text=The poet's eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.
}}