Constancy to an Ideal Object

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Constancy to an Ideal Obeject
Themes
- Nature
- Hope
Written in a pretty constant IAMBIC PENTAMETER that arguably supports the notion of constancy.
"O yearning Thought! that liv'st but in the brain?"
"Fond Thought!"
"Hope and Despair meet in the porch of Death!"
"Whose Helmsman on an ocean waste and wide // Sits mute and pale his mouldering helm beside"
"Nor knows he makes the shadow, he pursues!"
Coleridge seems to be condemning change and reality.
Lack of constancy can mean that situations grow worst.
He considers a contemporary loss of nature, his newfound loveliness and potential illusions found in the physical world.