English 1022E Lecture Notes - Tilia
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Romantic imagination and samuel coleridge"s this lime-tree bower, my prison (1800) Themes include nature as an antidote to urban dissipation, the power of the imagination, beauty of nature. Incarceration metaphor (can"t move because of his injuries caused by his wife and is confined to his lime tree bower while his friends are free to experience nature. Coleridge is depressed and annoyed and the whole poem is a vision for himself to provide himself with some sort of consolation to be trapped in his situation.
