Hsc - Poem
3. Poem
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Dejection: An Ode (Part VI)’ was published in 1803, and can be found on the internet at http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/634/.
Dejection: An Ode Part VI is written by the composer passing a judgement of his life’s course. The poem is set in rhyme schemes alternating between couplets (CC) and bracketed rhythms (ABAB). He recounts the periods of his life in which hope was able to conquer over many misfortunes that he had encountered. However, the heavy feeling of distress which is intertwined within the text, engulf and rob the composer of his power of Imagination. The stanza concludes with the composer ‘stealing’ the happiness that is present in his natural environment so that he may fake his contentment.
The three main ways this text relates to ‘Challenge and Hope’ is the power of hope, the power of nature and the overwhelming effect of dejection. The composer recalls the euphoric memories of being able to overcome many adversities he had faced during his life due to the power of Hope. He contrasts this time to the present as he explains that he was using the hope that surrounded him within nature, and not of his own internal hope. In context, the concept of Challenge and Hope is personified through the composer’s metaphorical description of Hope’s growth in correlation to nature. For example, “For hope grew round me like the twining vine, and fruits, and foliage…” (lines 5-6).
The motif of the power of ‘nature’ is a major theme which runs throughout the text as portrayed in the above example. The recurring motifs of nature is exemplified when the composer is reflecting on his past, where he once had the ability to use imagination to translate nature’s beauty of his surrounding environment into his own hope and happiness. However, the composer makes a point in the futility of relying on nature to garner these feelings of hope and happiness. He explores the relationship between nature and man where both
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem ‘Dejection: An Ode (Part VI)’ was published in 1803, and can be found on the internet at http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/634/.
Dejection: An Ode Part VI is written by the composer passing a judgement of his life’s course. The poem is set in rhyme schemes alternating between couplets (CC) and bracketed rhythms (ABAB). He recounts the periods of his life in which hope was able to conquer over many misfortunes that he had encountered. However, the heavy feeling of distress which is intertwined within the text, engulf and rob the composer of his power of Imagination. The stanza concludes with the composer ‘stealing’ the happiness that is present in his natural environment so that he may fake his contentment.
The three main ways this text relates to ‘Challenge and Hope’ is the power of hope, the power of nature and the overwhelming effect of dejection. The composer recalls the euphoric memories of being able to overcome many adversities he had faced during his life due to the power of Hope. He contrasts this time to the present as he explains that he was using the hope that surrounded him within nature, and not of his own internal hope. In context, the concept of Challenge and Hope is personified through the composer’s metaphorical description of Hope’s growth in correlation to nature. For example, “For hope grew round me like the twining vine, and fruits, and foliage…” (lines 5-6).
The motif of the power of ‘nature’ is a major theme which runs throughout the text as portrayed in the above example. The recurring motifs of nature is exemplified when the composer is reflecting on his past, where he once had the ability to use imagination to translate nature’s beauty of his surrounding environment into his own hope and happiness. However, the composer makes a point in the futility of relying on nature to garner these feelings of hope and happiness. He explores the relationship between nature and man where both