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    from the country to the cities‚ the Napoleon final battle of Waterloo in 1815 left many soldiers unemployed‚ and many social problems took over these years (Peterloo massacre‚ 1819). In literature‚ poets wanted a revolution too‚ Wordsworth and Coleridge changed the way poetry was conceived in contrast with the period that came before‚ the Augustan Age. A change in the vocabulary used in the poems‚ much simpler than in the Augustans. Now‚ emotions were important‚ the feelings and the imagination

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    Romantic poetry began with French Revolution in 1789. Romantic period is based on freedom of thought. The transition from structured form to imagination and individualism. Romanticism is means return to nature. Another means we can say ; everything take place around nature. In that period supernatural things is our imagination. Nature is the most significant subject in this period. Writers inspire from the nature. In that period William

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    Christian Allegory in "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems more like a miniature epic. However‚ not only it is a ballad talking about the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for life because he kills an albatross; deeper than that‚ it is also a religious allegory conveying numerous themes pertaining to Christianity. On the one hand‚ if one reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" simply as a tale at sea‚ the

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    The 2100 word essay entitled ‘William Wordsworth and Lucy’‚ on the English essay resource page of the London School of Journalism (http:// www.english-literature.org/essays/ wordsworth-lucy.html) discusses five of William Wordsworth’s (1770-1850) poems - ’Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known’‚ ’She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways’‚ ’I Travelled Among Unknown Men’‚ ’Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower’ and ’A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ – known as the ‘Lucy’ poems‚ and how they conform

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    most English intellectuals renounced the Revolution. However‚ the romantic vision had taken forms other than political‚ and these developed apace. In Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800)‚ a watershed in literary history‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge presented and illustrated a beneficial visual: poetry should express‚ in genuine language‚ experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination; the truest experience was to be found in nature. The concept of the Sublime strengthened

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    mentally he can still travel with his friends. Coleridge has portrayed this in the poem through the change between referring to the lime tree bower as his ‘prison’ in the 1st stanza‚ and then referring to as ‘this little lime tree bower’‚ representing his changing views that even though he may be physically stranded on the lime tree bower‚ he can still travel alongside his friends on their journey simply by remembering. By realising this‚ Coleridge has allowed himself to again reconnect with all

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    study of Samuel Coleridge’s poetry of “Frost at Midnight” and “This Lime-tree Bower My Prison” to just name a few. Samuel Coleridge was recognised for his romantic and a natural conversational type of poetry. 1. Journeys can be long‚ journeys can be short‚ journeys can be difficult. Life is a journeys‚ something we all experience. Goodmorning/afternoon fellow students‚ Mrs. Grant‚ my understanding of the concept of journey has been expanded through my study of Samuel Coleridge’s

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    a young friend whom Wordsworth had been nursing died of tuberculosis and left him a grant of 900 pounds. His friend had hoped that with this money Wordsworth would be able to devote his life to poetry‚ and in August of 1795 Wordsworth met Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Over the next two years their friendship would grow and in 1797 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy moved to Alfoxden House‚ which was only a few miles from Coleridge’s home. The creative partnership between these two young poets would

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    The Pride of the Mariner “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge is a mysterious‚ complicated‚ intriguing tale of a sea voyage recounted by a Mariner to a wedding guest he encounters just as the wedding is about to commence. The unwilling wedding guest is mesmerized by the Mariner and the recitation of the story recalling the storm‚ fog‚ drought‚ ghost ship‚ spirits‚ angels‚ dead bodies‚ and the Albatross. Coleridge’s tale has the Mariner journeying through pride‚ suffering‚ the supernatural

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    Stretching across nearly all realms of Romanticism is the idea that individual freedom animates the imagination. I find that Samuel Taylor Coleridge explicitly expresses this query of thought in his poem “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.” In addition to Coleridge‚ many other members of the Romantic movement also engaged in imagination-centered writing. Conversely‚ the Enlightenment movement opposed encouraging individuals to utilize their imagination. Instead‚ the Enlightenment valued scientific conclusions

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