Dejection: An Ode
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- Dejection: An Ode
- Definitions:
- dejection
- sad and depressed state
- ode
- expression of emotion
- dejection
- Themes
- Dissatifaction
- Love
- Nature
- Coleridge shaped and edited this verse letter into one of his most famous poems, which he could publish and show his friends.
- The poem was originally titled 'A Letter to Sara Hutchinson'
- Influenced by a poem about a sailor who drowns similarly to 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
- "If the bard was weather-wise"
- "A grief without a pang"
- "Yon crescent Moon […] starless lake of blue"
- "I see, not feel, how beautiful they are!"
- "The passion and the life, whose fountains are within"
- "Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud."
- "This beautiful and beauty-making power. // Joy, virtuous Lady! Joy"
- "A new Earth and new Heaven"
- "viper thoughts, that coil around my mind // Reality's dark dream."
- "Listen to the wind […] What a scream"
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