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Strike a Balance ¡V Reason and Imagination What is more important, logic or creativity? It is difficult to tell. In Hong Kong, society usually blames the education system on making our children lack of creativity to invent and explore new things. However, the teaching of science and technology should be in the field of reason and logic. Contradiction seems to occur here. In fact, it was a topic long ago, since Romanticism in the late 18th century. Romanticists emphasis on ¡§intuition, feeling, inspiration, and the genius of human creativity¡¨, in which contrast with the stress on human reason during the period of Revolution. In William Wordsworth The World is Too Much with Us, London, 1802, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 and Samuel Taylor Coleridge¡¦s Kubla Khan, all these have transformations on the physical localities to show the dynamic impacts of Romanticism. To start with, it is important for us to understand the meaning of ¡§transforming the physical localities¡¨. Physical localities mean the setting of the poem, such as ¡§Westminster Bridge¡¨, ¡§London¡¨ and the natural environment. Usually, in a poem, some underlying meanings will be conveyed despite the description on the