ENG 3318 Lecture 10: Coleridge Lecture 3 - February 27
10 Mar 2017
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The conversation poems : mini psychological dramas, companiable dialogue, similar to tintern abbey looser, casual, elevated and serious tone, composing in early 20s, not a happy marriage. Description of place is basis or pretext for more general commentary and philosophizing: convo poems don"t follow this tradition (for the most part, style: relaxed, informal, intimate. Wanting to be passive receptor of world. Orthodox pretending not to have free will: how individual is responsible for creating world around him. Individual"s power of own world: dozen versions. Between 55 and 77 lines: addresses charles lamb, stuck with isolated speaker, stanza 1 sense of loss, absence, isolation, anticipating him thinking himself out of prison. Imagines his friends, joins them god-like orders events: stanza 2: places self in moment, guesswork moves to certainty, imagines world he"s developed for self. Isolated, but imagines film into companiable form: when you look at world, you project your need onto it, projects image onto child.
