Confessional Poems
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- Confessional Poems
- Pains of Sleep
- Coleridge confessing to lack of religion or sin.
- Symbolising Coleridge in a religious crisis.
- Youth and Age
- Muses upon his loss of youth as old age begins to creep in to his very bones.
- He renders his body weaker as he realises he lacks the vitality he enjoyed during his younger years.
- "The experience of depression is in itself an almost defining characteristic of the Romantic mind."
- A deeper level could be Coleridge's long struggle with mental depression.
- "Hope" is a fundamental force in both the natural and moral universe.
- These are poems of doubt and dark reflection.
- His REAL confession is his prolonged and self-destructive opium addiction.
- It could be called the poetry of his "darker self".
- Psychologists presume to say that it is almost universal for creative artists, it = depression.
- Pains of Sleep
- Richard Holmes
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