Christabel

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Christabel
Themes
- Good vs. Evil
- The Supernatural
- Memory ad the Past
- Compassion and Forgiveness
- Women and Femininity
Definitions:
- cleft
  - an obscurity
  - mastiff *****
    - female dog
    - unrobe
      - undress
      - martin bell
        morning bell
        
        sacristan
        religious figure
"awakened the crowing ****; // Tu-whit! - Tu - whoo!"
"The moon is behind"
"She kneels beneath the huge oak tree, // And in silence prayeth she"
"Beautiful exceedingly!"
"Praise we the Virgin all divine"
"Yet she an angry moan did make! […] Never till now she uttered yell"
"Off, woman, off!"
"A sight tof dream of, not to tell! O shield her! Shield sweet Christabel!"
"And drew in her breath with a hissing sound"
Dove = hope
Snake = sin
"full of wonder and full of grief"
"In eyes so innocent and blue"
"To the wronged daughter of his friend"
"A little child, a limber elf"
Wrote first part in 1797 and the second part in 1800
It is an original poem
He purposefully changed the stanza lengths in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.
Coleridge could be seen as racy the Bard.
Geraldine's confusion towards Christabel and Sir Leoline could suggest his love interests.

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