ENG383H1 Lecture Notes - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Omen, Posthumanism
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And i blessed them unaware : coleridge"s dark ecologies. Poetry was taken up and celebrated in london for a time. Clare was also a tragic figure, spending many years in an asylum for the insane. Can easily see his keen interest in detail. Nature is not just a symbol or a metaphor in his work: concerned with nature as an actuality. Angry with londoners who just assume that any bird they hear after sunset must be a nightingale. The idea of being in touch with nature seems to be more appealing to some writers than to others. How is it different from trans-humanism: says we want to be able to transcend our human condition (trans- humanism, post-humanism, in a way, is more radical. Partly because it posits that the non-human is apart of what it means to be human from the start. Calls into question where what we call the self begins and ends.
