Coleridge and the Poetic Imagination:The Link Between True Life and True Poetry
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SummaryThere is no single theme that pervades every one of Coleridge’s many poems, but a body of motifs relating to familial relationships and friendship imbue both his conversation poems, such as Frost at Midnight and The Eolian Harp, and his “mystery” poems, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Kahn, and Christabel. As Kelvin Everest asserts in his study of the conversation poems, Coleridge’s Secret Ministry, this body of motifs is representative of Coleridge’s work as a whole, and gives insight into the personal motivation, stemming from his own experiences, for exploring so extensively the poet-reader and the family-society relationships: The conversation poems represent Coleridge’s most clearly articulated statement of a theme that is present in all his poetry. It is in fact more accurate to speak of a number of related themes and images; friendship, family, marriage, the retired, the self-sufficient ‘dell’ or ‘vale’ or ‘nook’ providing an intimately known home in nature.
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- Coleridge explored idealized familial relationships in Frost at Midnight.
- Born in 1772, the youngest of Reverend John Coleridge's ten children.
- Coleridge analyzes the Lyrical Ballads, his collaborative effort with Wordsworth.
- Coleridge attempts to intimate to his reader the sweetness and joy of familial harmony.
- Frost at Midnight goes through a similar rupture in emotion.
- Like Christabel, this sailor is denied all connection to humanity.
- Coleridge cannot, nor does he want to, extricate his personal beliefs and insecurities from his poetry.
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