Coleridge Notes

MOST EXPECTED QUESTIONS

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DISCUSS S.T. COLERIDGE’S POETIC ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE PRESCRIBED PIECES OF POETRY.

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COLERIDGE IS MYSTERIOUS IN HIS VISION OF THE WORLD,

ELABORATE.

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S.T. Coleridge falls in the category of primorolial romantic poets and is turned over in our mind to be an autochthon of the Romantic Age. When William Wordsworth jotted down the “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”, Coleridge lent him a helping hand in composing the volume. In the point of fact, S.T. Coleridge, rather than a starry-eyed poet, was a philosophical poet. Coleridge was blessed with scintillating wit and ripened wisdom among the Romantic poets. In the throes of his contemporaries, romanticism tends to take a single domineering hue, whereas, in Coleridge’s poetry, it captures all the darker and brighter aspects of life as well as attains the accomplishment of convolution.

In Coleridge’s poetry, there is leeway for the spirit of undoubting adventure, the felicity of lucky strike and the romance for action. There is glamour of the untrammeled regions which are replete with wondrous and eerie elements. Coleridge’s poetry is overwhelmed by instinctive depiction in a variety of moods and possesses a familiarity and comfort. It is also bizarre and spine-chilling, tender and smoothing, desolating as well as heavy-hearted. S.T. Coleridge unlike most of the others, counts the gift of telling an account pregnant in dramaturgic ins and outs in his possessions.

The sum and substance of Romanticism lies in his artistic treatment of the supernatural. His poems “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of Ancient Mariner” are rich in unblemished supernaturalism. His outlook about supernatural things is never vitiation on our blind faith. In lieu of abruptly, steeping into the realms of supernatural, firstly he conquers the faith of his readers with the various rendering of the common garden landscape and then, by and by, proceeds to turn his faith to account and leads the supernatural elements into...