The poem is lyrical in tone, resembling a meditative poem or an ode. ... Coleridge himself initially subtitled the poem "A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment," which further instates the poem as being incomplete (Mahony 2). ... The poem's preface gives Coleridge's explanation of his reasons for publishing the poem as a fragment. ... Still others contend that just because the poem is considered a fragment, does not mean that the poem is not whole. ... As proven, there are many different ways to think about Coleridge's poem. ...

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In this poem, Wordsworth idealizes nature at the same time he expresses his disapproval of mankind. ... As the poem progresses; however, the mood of the poem improves as Coleridge continues to fantasize over what all his friends might encounter on their walk. ... Coleridge's mention of "the Almighty Spirit" also indicates the poem's Romantic orientation. ... The rhyming scheme utilized in the poem is also uniquely Whitman's. ... Even still, the last two listed poems are still definitively recognized as examples of Romanticism. ...

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His fascination with mortality shows up in his poetry, The Lucy Poems, for instance are a series of poems about a young girl who may or may not been a figment of Wordsworth imagination who ultimately dies. ... The poem" She was a phantom of delight" consist of three stanzas each having three lines and its rhyming scheme is AABBCCDDEE the rhyme scheme is able to unify the poem and emphasize the beauty of the woman being described. ... This poem is distinctive to any other romantic poems because it depicts a woman with the poets changing perspective toward this striking woman. ... One ...

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William Wordsworth also writes this poem as a spontaneous outpouring of the human emotion. ... The poem can be used as an autobiography because Wordsworth continues to use the word "I" in the poem as if he himself is expressing his thoughts and feelings. ... In William Wordsworth's poem he writes his spot of time as a bond to nature. ... At the time this poem was written the industrial revolution has begun its course. ... Wordsworth has written this poem to indirect his unity with nature. ...

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"A people starved and stabbed" is an example of how language in the poem is used to show the abuse. ... Another element of the poem is the description of the "youthful Harlot" who decadent ways have lead to the death of marriage. ... The poem begins with a ruler, living in a distant exotic land, explaining the palace that he intends t o build. ... An oppostitional reading to the poem Kubla Khan is that it was not so much an authentic emotive and imaginative poem, but more the drug-induced ravings of Samuel Coleridge, who one day drifted into a fantasy that was Xanadu. ... These discou...

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One important aspect of this poem to consider before analyzing its deeper contents is its narrative structure. ... Consider both the gothic and romantic language he uses to describe what occurs throughout the entire poem. ... However, if one ties this back to the personification of the storm earlier in the poem, it can be seen that this has to do with more than just killing a bird. ... Moreover, there are several clues in the poem which indicate that it's about slavery. ... " This idea is also set forth before the poem, in the epigraph by Thomas Burnet which is written in Latin. ...

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The poem then progresses and the mariner slays the bird with no motive just as man crucified Christ. ... The poem and the weather suddenly take a drastic turn and the ship is being driven by stormy winds towards the South Pole. ... The sea is where the significant moments of eternal choice and temptation occur that we observe throughout the poem. ... There are numerous occurrences of death that are used throughout the poem. ... The cycle of sin to punishment to penance is completed and thus the poem ends . ...

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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, also known as S. ... A narrative poem is a poem that tells a story. ... Everything was going smoothly until the destabilizing event of the poem. ... Part III is the most bizarre section of the poem. ... This is the pivot point of the poem. ...

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His poems embody the essence of the romantic time period, and the typical fashion of poets during this point in history. ... The poem comes to a close when the nightingale flies away, and Keats realizes his imagination is not enough on its own to fashion its own reality. ... His poem, "Ode to a Nightingale, " gives us insight into his mindset at that time. ... All throughout the poem he is searching for the happiness that the nightingale possess. This aspect of the poem exemplifies romantic qualities, because he was in a state of sadness looking for hope in his despair. ...

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Between the two poems, however, there are differences as well as similarities - the most obvious being probably intimately linked with the different dispositions of the two poets. ... Both views seem to be offered alternately throughout the poem, which only adds to its complexity. ... The sufferings of the two men may be traced in both poems as going through several analogous stages. ... A parallel between the two poems may be drawn here: if we consider the crew of the ship as a family and the Mariner as being the eldest on board, Coleridge's poem presents us with pretty much the ...

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Firstly, the poem alludes to wind as being the imagination, and the harp as the mind. ... Here, the poem suggests that the breeze possesses an ability to produce music, but in order for this to happen there needs to be a medium through which its gentle movements can be converted into the fundamental vibrations of particles, or in other words, the creation of sound; the wind has the potential to sing. ... The poem succeeds in not only describing how the wind can be the player with a bow across a musical instrument, but directing attenction to the almighty power of God being a potential influenc...

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This was Wordsworth's main criticism of the poem, that the mariner does not act, but is constantly acted upon and pursued by a dark and sinister fate. ... He revised and published numerous works, among them were poems such as "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel." ... But beneath all of his achievements and classic poems was a man with many problems. ...

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In Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, intellectualization and repression go hand in hand throughout the poem. ... A further example of intellectualization occurs within the fifth part of the poem when the mariner is able to sleep and it rains. ...

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Though the Romantic period specialised in poetry, there also appeared a few prose-writers-Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey who rank very high. There was no revolt of the prose-writers against the eighteenth century comparable to that of the poets, but a change had taken place in the prose-style also. Wh...

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