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Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan" uses images from nature to describe the intense pleasure found in the sensations of a sexual experience, through the metaphor of a palace, comparing this pleasure also to the joy of experiencing great creative inspiration.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on poetry - from a series of quotations and excerpts from master poets, reflecting upon the poetic craft.

A look at how the complexities of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem enrich its meaning. Includes discussions of characters such as the Mariner, the Wedding Guest and Life-in-Death.

An analysis of how Coleridge's later version of his poem compares to the original.

Both Keats' "The Eve of St. Agnes" and Coleridge's "Christabel" use gothic elements to enhance the ominous mood set forth by both authors, but the similarity between them ends at the point where both Keats and Coleridge engage these elements for their specific purposes.

Coleridge was one of England's three Lake District poets, and the writer of Kubla Khan. He dreamt up idyllic scenery for his poems, although his own life was anything but idyllic.

The contextual factors and use of water in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Wordsworth's Prelude

Coleridge famously sought to achieve unity in life and art. Ironically, his most famous poem fails to achieve unity.

A research paper that considers the possibilty that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lesbian vampire poem Christabel might actually be a veiled confession of homosexual love between Coleridge and Wordsworth.

In the beginning of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner readers are presented with an introductory statement regarding the metaphysical world.

For many romantic writers, imagination is creation. Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Keats shared romantic concepts of imagination, which they creatively expressed through their writing and poems.

A look at two poems by Coleridge that define what entials the highest quality of mythological and supernatural elements in romantic poetry. These two poems have set the groundwork for further supernatural poetry and have remains unsurpassed throughout time.

Coleridge's experience with conversation poetry drives the "Eolian Harp." His fantastic approach to romanticism is evident through the important truths found in the poem. Romantics believed in being visionary which Coleridge portrays in poem.

This essay examines how Samuel Taylor Coleridge's use of opium influenced his creative process on the poem, "Kubla Khan."

On the cusp of the nineteenth century, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published The Lyrical Ballads, a compilation of their experimental poetry.

Opium is a drug that has existed since the dawn of time. It was opium that gently nudged Samuel Taylor Coleridge and helped him to conjure up Kubla Khan, and many other artists are deeply in its debt.

Find out how to turn something in that doesn't sound completely dorky when the assignment is to write an analysis of Romantic poetry.

In this article, Roger L. Slakey makes many thoughtful observations regarding Wordsworth's poem, particularly in regard to its adherence to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notion of "poetic form as a proceeding".

One of the key figures in the Transcendentalists movement in America.

It has been confirmed that the Emmy-nominated actress Renee Elise Goldsberry has failed to reach an agreement with One Life to Live and the ABC network. As a result her character Evangeline Williamson will soon slip into a coma.

Writing Ideas: how do you get them?

Some memorable words about mother, humorous words that speak her truths, and thoughtful words to honor her.

Sleep. We all do it; some more than others. Here are some of my favorite quotes from famous people who've talked about sleep...

Hallucinogenics have been around, in one form or another, for millenia. They've enabled imbibers to enter into the world of the mystic - but only for brief visits.

The secret to survival in today's world is being able to tell the difference between science and science-fiction. It's not as easy as it once was to tell reality from the special effects.

A research paper on the poetry of Wallace Stevens and his take on what the imagination does and means in the context of poetry.

Students can use the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, the lesser-known sister of William, to help them learn to catalogue their own lives.

Emmy award-winning headwriter Megan McTavish fired after nearly three years on All My Children.

At some point in your life you've been required to read something that wasn't easy or exciting. The fact of the matter is, though, that the reading has to get done, and it has to be understood.

An essay explaining how Woolf uses a non-biased opinion while writing about how to write using an androgynous mind.

An interpretation of Melville's 'Moby Dick', specifically the relationships between the characters and how their actions define who they are. Also references Emily Dickenson in a relevant context.

Art and philosophy, in both their origin and their practice, serve as the tools of religion.

What is poetry? Many eloquent individuals have attempted to define it, yet each has captured but one small part of its mysterious essence.

Sometimes the stories behind the creation of certain fantasy fiction works are as fascinating as the novels themselves.

John Keats, aside from being a ground-breaking poet, helped to reinvent the concept of imagination.

Emma Lee has just finished writing a novel and one of her short stories, "First and Last and Always", is appearing in Extended Play, an anthology of music-inspired stories published by Elastic Press (London).

The top ten songs written and performed by Ben Folds and his earlier group Ben Folds Five, as chosen by the author and justified.

Comparison of the writing style's of two of England's most popular authors.

An essay on the significance of bird imagery in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Sky-Lark, and Ode to a Nightingale.

This paper researches the multiple areas of influence and accomplishments of William Blake.

Does she take the wish?

...what happens when someone crosses the line into the reality of her wildest dreams? Picture if you will, a woman who wants only to live life to the fullest, who finally finds herself stepping smartly into...the Eventide Zone.

Ruminations on the romantic ideals expressed in Jean Jacques Rousseau's Reveries of a Solitary Walker.

The major effect of the Pardoner's presence is to focus the reader's attention to questions of performance and performativity...

In Plato's final hours, he dictated a philosophy of the soul and reality to his friends and pupils. This philosophy explained the world of forms and the world of particulars. I will show examples of forms and particulars in classic occult literature.

Five quick writing prompts for people who have writer's block or who just like to practice their writing abilities by doing writing exercises.

The National Capitol at Washington D.C. is probably the most thoroughly haunted building in the world.

Order and dis-order are very important literature elements.

An author may use this notion of optimism against pessimism to teach a moral lesson or to show a transformation of a character whether it be from an optimistic perspective to a pessimistic one or vice versa.

The stated moral at the end of Rime of the Ancient Mariner is too facile in light of all that has come before to be taken at face value.