Dejection and the eighth deadly sin: A Christian-critical engagement with Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode”

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07/10/2009

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Table of Contents Dejection and the eighth deadly sin: A Christian-critical engagement  with Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode” Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. The context and history of 'Dejection: An Ode'
  3. Coleridge's emotional history
  4. The intellectual conversion
  5. Analzying the text
  6. Dejection and Acedia
  7. Conclusion
  8. Works cited

Abstract

For the ordinary reader encountering coleridge's "dejection: An ode," the poet's dejection may seem irrelevant. The most explicit reason proffered for his dejection is that visitations of affliction have suspended "what nature gave me at my birth,/ The shaping spirit of Imagination" (Greenblatt, 1654). It may occur to the reader that this shaping spirit is not something nature gives to most people. Probably it will occur to the reader that he himself, for example, has not received that particular gift from nature.

But on the other hand, as the reader will feel, the experience of reading coleridge's ode confirms the opinion of critical tradition that this poem is great literature. Whatever connotations the phrase "great literature" brings to mind, one of them will probably be universality-that is to say, reading "dejection" exposes us to something basically human. The purpose of this essay is to get at that something. But in order to get at that something, we will take a meandering and appreciative (but ultimately focused) journey through some of the historical, social, linguistic, and aesthetic features of the poem.

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