Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
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- Created on: 23-08-19 11:59
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- Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
- Themes
- Memory
- Emotion
- Nature
- Definitions:
- Myrtle and Jasmins
- flowers
- inobtrusive
- quiet, not in your face
- omnipresence
- God is everywhere in nature
- Bristowa's citizen
- Bristolian
- Myrtle and Jasmins
- Biblical language
- "The sea's faint murmur, […] Our Myrtles blossom'd […] Thick Jasmins twined"
- "pleas'd sadness"
- "Oh! what a goodly scene!"
- "Grey clouds, that shadowing spot the sunny fields"
- "It seem'd like omnipresence! God, methought"
- "On rose-leaf beds, pampering the coward heart // With feelings all too delicate for use?"
- "to fight the bloodless fight // Of science, freedom, and the Truth in Christ"
- "O father! Let thy Kingdom come!"
- = Coleridge is a son of a preacher
- = a lay preacher himself until his own son, Hartley, was born
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