The Eolian Harp
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- Created on: 21-08-19 23:45
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- The Eolian Harp
- Themes
- Sexuality
- Unity of Life
- God/Religion
- Coleridge rented a cottage the summer before his marriage to Sara Fricker.
- A poem of courtship - tender sexual feelings are set within a pastoral landscape of hill and coast.
- The "one life" passage seems to confirm the notion of a harmonious world tuned like a harp.
- It contrasts his longing for domestic happiness with his sense of public and religious duty.
- Definitions:
- cot
- cottage
- Jasmine and Myrtle
- flowers
- elfins
- elfs
- sequacious
- lacking independence
- pantheism
- someone who identifies God with Creation
- someone who denies a personal God and a denial of the Trinity
- cot
- "My pensive Sara! thy soft check reclined // Thus on mine arm, most soothing sweet it is"
- "With white - flower'd Jasmine, and the broad - leav'd Myrtle […] Innocence and love!"
- "As twilight Elfins make, when they at eve // Voyage on gentle gales from fairy-land"
- "my half-clos'd eye lids […] sunbeams dance, like diamonds on the main, // And tranquil muse upon tranquillity"
- "one intellectual breeze, // At once the Soul of each, and God of all?"
- "A sinful and most miserable man, // Wilder'd and dark, and gave me to passes // Peace, and this Cot, and thee, heart-honour'd mard"
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