English 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, List Of Human Positions, The Eolian Harp
16 Dec 2017
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One of 5 poets, the major english poets in the romantic movement. Opening lines of poem: romantic, emotional, affectionate. Not an objective setting, subjective; filtered through perception. 12-25 establish agency of eolis the wind. Maid is not saying yes or no, she says maybe. The music becomes a gateway to the world of imagination. The wind is making music and is therefore a musician, kind of a personification- the wind is an analogue for the artist. The one life within us all: the principle of divinity, the breeze embodies the soul that runs through everything. Synesthesia: the notion that stimulation in one sensory organ is echoed in another. Impossible not to love everything, cause everything is connected. He is thinking, daydreaming, uncalled for ideas running through his brain. His thoughts are like the one life that flows through . Everyone is the harp, different frames but has the common life flowing through them.
