Representation of the Imaginative Journey in Coleridge's Poetry, "The Wind in the Willows" and "The Wizard of Oz."

It is really impossible to separate journeys from life. The various ideas that explore this notion are the decisions made in life affect the rest of your journey, and once half way is reached there's no turning back with only going forward, and a journey can leave behind real life and plunges into the realms of the imagination in order to understand and resolve reality. The various techniques used are imagery language, graphics, colour, and …

…Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Coleridge, novel extract 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame, the 1939 film 'The Wizard of Oz' directed by Victor Fleming, the short story 'The Wish' by Roald Dahl, all exam the relationship between life and journeys using various techniques such as imagery language, colour, and repetition. Some of the ideas examined are that the imaginary journey can resolve issues of reality which in turn can become more powerful then reality.