ENG308Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Kubla Khan
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In lb, both authors had radical reformist aims in mind in relation to poetry: challenge the film of familiarity regarding the kind of poetry readers were habituated to. Made it necessary to get a license from a magistrate to give a lecture. Coleridge in his poem fears of solitude pays attention to the damaged course of speech in england. He critiqued the exaltation of war; everything is sensationalized. The loss of speech reflects the loss of freedom to see this: compromised and damaged speech. How might his romances be his response to the sociopolitical situation in. Suggestion of geraldine"s true form as the snake. Line 585-622: geraldine looks askance at christabel and christabel sees a kind of serpentine creature. She might be a lamia figure: christabel can only hiss which matches geraldine"s serpentine nature. Dichotomy of christ and satan; theological undertones: although christabel is trying to say the truth, her speaking is making her sound like geraldine.
