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Question 1

quotes for illusions and dreams paragraph tempest:

Answer 1

“I wish mine eyes/Would with themselves shut up my thoughts. I find/ They are inclined to do so” (act 2 sc 1)
“three men of sin”,
“All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt, Like poison given to work a great time after,/Now ‘gins to bite the spirits”.

Question 2

quotes for imaginative journey poem:

Answer 2

“here I must remain,/this lime-tree bower my prison!”
, “Friends, whom I may never see again”
“thou glorious Sun!”, “purple heath-flowers!” and “blue Ocean”
hues/As veil the Almighty Spirit

Question 3

links with tempest in imaginative journey paragraph:

Answer 3

The imaginative journey is reminiscent of what Prospero thrusts on his victims. He conjures a fake but symbolic storm to temporarily disrupt the chain of being and force cathartic and confronting experiences

Question 4

compassion and reconciliation para tempest:

Answer 4

“The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous, winds,/ And ‘twixt the green sea and the azured vault/ Set roaring war- to th’ dread rattling thunder”,
“this thing of darkness/ I acknowledge mine.”
“the rarer action is/In virtue than in vengeance…”
, “Let us not burthen our remembrances with/A heaviness that’s gone.”
“Let your indulgence set me free”,
“release me from my bands”.
metaphor ”I’ll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And deeper than did ever plummet sound, Ill drown my book.”

Question 5

physical and mental confinement para quotes

Answer 5

A delight/Comes sudden on my heart”
“its black wing now a dim speck, now vanishing in light”
“black wing

Question 6

links with tempest in physical and mental confinement para

Answer 6

Although Coleridge has not physically changed, he now sees the world in a different perspective like Prospero

. Coleridge achieves emancipation that may not have been possible within the confines of the city, similarly with the isolated setting of the island in The Tempest.

After his imaginative journey, Coleridge reaches a stage of enlightenment and emancipation where he returns to the the lime tree bower with a new perception of his surroundings, as Prospero is due to do when venturing back to Milan.