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    that the Romantics valued is the imagination. Poets like Samuel Taylor Coleridge called upon the powers of imagination to bring relief and peace to their chaotic worlds. John Keats illustrated what effects the imagination can have when it is allowed to permeate reality. Both of these poets demonstrate how imagination shapes reality and how these images are projected onto the natural world. In "Frost at Midnight," Samuel Taylor Coleridge sees nature as a support

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    accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.” Coleridge followed his own advice in the crafting of Kubla Khan; which presents his interpretation of the Kubla Khan court when under the influence of opiates. Due to the complexity of the poem, many have found that the poem lacks a true theme but instead focuses on “the nature and dialectical process of poetic creation.” Coleridge created a masterpiece by providing the readers room for personal interpretation but

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    missing some works cited "Tintern Abbey": Millennialism and Apocalypse Thought in S. T. Coleridge and William Wordsworth's Poetics Storming of the Bastille 1789 [1] During and in the aftermath of the French Revolution, millennialist thought – independent of the myriad of economic and historical reasons for its precipitation – influenced many authors. Many people perceived the French Revolution as a foreshadowing of an Apocalypse that would usher in a new millenarian epoch, one levelling

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    animals in romantic poetry Many Romantic poets expressed a fascination with nature in their works. Even more specific than just nature, many poets, such as William Blake, Robert Burns, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge all seemed fascinated with animals. Animals are used as symbols throughout poetry, and are also used to give the reader something to which they can relate. No matter what the purpose, however, animals played a major part in Romantic Poetry. William Blake used animals as basic

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    Coleridge?s Hidden Journal: ?The Rime of the Ancient Mariner? Samuel Taylor Coleridge?s ?Rime of the Ancient Mariner? is a piece known to many in some vague way or another. An elderly sailor, a ghostly ship, and the killing of an albatross are all present in many people?s minds, although they may not entirely know the whole tale. Although well-known today, the most activity ?Rime? has seen was in its beginnings. It has its fair share of praise and criticism, praise given posthumously and criticism

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    The troubled souls of burdened authors in the late eighteenth through late nineteenth century permitted Romanticism to be recognized as the different development that characterized disaster and sentimentalism as the justification for delightful motivation. Authors amid this time were considered to be furious with no health to the spirit. Because of the substance that most sentimentalists showed, it is stated that most were sincerely and mentally aggravated. The unwillingness inside every spirit can

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    Perceptions Of Childhood

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    British Romantic Poets, mainly William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth, all had groundbreaking philosophies on childhood. William Blake went against the common thinking of the time and portrayed abused and mistreated children to showcase their innocence and make society aware of the issues they face. Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed the very important need for children to have a relationship with nature. William Wordsworth

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    linked, however, reading Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poems will help guide minds into an entirely different perspective. While reading further into these poet’s poems, parallels begin to become enormously noticeable. William Wordsworth’s and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems, “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” and “Frost at Midnight”, both have several distinct and hidden similarities and differences ranging from themes to form, and everything in between. As said before, Wordsworth’s

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    mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of the poetic geniuses of the age, uses nature and his imagination to create surreal atmospheres. Another Romantic poet, by the name of Percy Bysshe Shelley, shows great longing for the freedom that nature possesses and the freeing effect it has on him. These poets of the Romantic period look at nature from a higher consciousness

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    The Ancient Mariner

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    All humans have the ability to imagine anything, regardless of whether it’s realistic or not. As a result, the human imagination can go beyond one’s own horizon and expand indefinitely. Samuel Taylor Coleridge emphasizes the importance of the imagination in his poems. Therefore, in his poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” he uses supernatural forces to describe the vividness of the human imagination. When the Ancient Mariner stops the Wedding, “he holds him with his glittering eye” and the

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