Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All about Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his works.

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Xtremes 1772 Ottery St Mary   Devon , England

2. Born 21 October 1772 Ottery St Mary ,  Devon , England Died 25 July 1834 (aged 61) Highgate ,  Middlesex , England Occupation Poet, critic, philosopher Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge Literary movement Romanticism Notable works The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ,  Kubla Khan Spouse Sarah Fricker Children Sara Coleridge , Berkeley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge

3. Early Life

4. Born in 1772 in Ottery St. Mary on October 21 ,1772.He was the youngest of ten children. He lost his father when he was only ten years old After his sister died, Coleridge was rather ill and started to use opium. This would be an addiction he would have for life Some of his poems are based on a night when he ran away from home and was later brought back to his house by a neighbor, He showed it in imagery in his poems along with the notebooks he kept throughout his adult life

5. Friendship is a sheltering tree. Poetry: the best words in the best order. Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth. Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

6. Notable Works

7. The Rime of the ancient mariner The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different parts of the poem.

8. Oh! Dream of joy! Is this indeed The light-house top I see? Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree ? We drifted o'er the harbor-bar, And I with sobs did pray— O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway .

9. Kubla Khan Kubla Khan cam be also referred to as Vision in a dream The poem takes sits name from the Mongol and Chinese emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty Kubla Khan is not considered a full poem , but rather a fragment because Coleridge didn’t finish it In the poem there is a word Xanadu, which was made up by himself. His poem is considered one of the most famous of the romantic period.

10. Then all the charm Is broken—all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other. Stay awhile, Poor youth! who scarcely dar'st lift up thine eyes-- The stream will soon renew its smoothness, soon The visions will return! And lo! he stays, And soon the fragments dim of lovely forms Come trembling back, unite, and now once more The pool becomes a mirror.

11. Christabel Christabel is a long narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in two parts. The first part was reputedly written in 1797, and the second in 1800. Coleridge planned three additional parts, but these were never completed. It was published in a pamphlet in 1816, alongside Kubla Khan and The Pains of Sleep.

12. Like one that shuddered, she unbound The cincture from beneath her breast: Her silken robe, and inner vest, Dropt to her feet, and in full view, Behold! her bosom and half her side

13. Contribution to English Literature Started romanticism in English Popularized the lyrical ballads in English Distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse.  Coleridge’s associated discussion of imagination remains a fixture of institutional criticism while his occasional notations on language proved seminal for the foundation and development of Cambridge English in the 1920s.

14. Criticism – Kubla Khan Coleridge uses nature as way to show his inner emotions and imaginations He uses a female’s body as a metaphor for a deceptive comfort that in fact is a miserable hell. Coleridge's imagery describes a garden , but his choice of words also shows physical womanliness.

15. Conclusion

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