Topic: Coleridge as a poet.

• Name: Sonal Baraiya.

• Class: M.A. Sem– 2.

• Roll No.: 26.

• Subject: Romantic Age.

• Submitted to: Smt. S. B. Gardi,

Department of English,

Bhavnagar University.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Born: Devonshire, on 1772.

‘‘I never thought as a child, never had the language of a child.’’

He was a poet of Lake School.

S. T. Coleridge’s poems.

Coleridge’s poetical genius was brief

indeed, but the fruit of it was rich and

wonderful.

His collections of poems such as:

1) ‘‘Destiny of Nations.’’

2) ‘‘Ode to the Departing Year.’’

3) ‘‘French Anode.’’

His Famous poems

In collaboration with Wordsworth, he

produced the Lyrical Ballads

(1798).

‘‘The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner.’’

‘‘Christabel (1797).’’

‘‘Kubla Khan (1798).’’

Coleridge as a poet

• Intense imaginative power, superbly

controlled.

• Witchery of language.

• Simplicity of diction.

‘‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.’’

In which he talked

about supernaturalism

by introducing readers

to a supernatural ship

and a crew of dead

men and the course of

Albatross; the amazing

scenes during the calm

and the storm; and the

return home.

His imaginative power

• Day after day, day after day,

We stuck, nor breath nor motion;

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, every where,

Nor any drop to drink.

‘‘Christabel (1797).’’

Christabel is the

tale of a kind of

witch, who, by

taking the shape of

a lovely lady, wins

the confidence of

the heroine

Christabel.

‘‘Kubla Khan 1798.’’ The poem, beginning

with a description of the stately pleasure-dome built by Kubla Khan in Xanadu, soon becomes a dreamlike series of dissolving views, each expressed in the most perfect imagery and most magical of verbal music, but it collapses in mid-career.

Thank You.Thank You.