Reflections On Having Left A Place Of Retirement Flashcards
Reflections
A03
Context
Coleridge uses concept of retirement in its wider sense of somewhere comfortable from which to retreat from world - referring to marital home of Clevedon and thoughts on leaving it
Since marriage - 1795, Coleridge been travelling around Eng to promote his poetry and meet with philosophers and political activists.
The contrast between home and abroad and role of poets and philosophers are explored here
Poem began with Latin line from Horale’s Satires ‘seromoni propriara’ which translates too ‘teachings that would be better discussed’
Suggesting poem contains philosophical debates rather than being a lyrical description
A04
Similarities
Eolian Harp and ROHLAPOR
Form and structure
Both stanzas of enjambment, blank verse, iambic pentameter, unrhymed and conversation poems - natural speech
A04 comparisons
Eolian Harp and ROHLAPOR
Context
Both poems respect and take in view of nature and it’s power
They seem to favour natural power over human power, yet both battle with nature and human reality
(EH - wife, Reflections - left)
References to God/religion References to specific nature Exploration of senses Questions and exclamation - excitement Direct address to Sara Awe of natural beauty and restorative power Hyphens - contemplation Cyclic End of ! Piety at end
How is reflections cyclic
A01
PERSONS THOUGHTS
- Remembering natural beauty of home
- Leaving to climb a mountain but still finding natural beauty here
- Travelling and finding others working and suffering
- dreaming everyone has home such as his
Descriptions and images of home quotes
‘Pretty cot’
‘Myrtles blossm’d; and across the porch Thick Jasmin twined’
‘chamber window’
Quotes
Thing admires in external landscape
‘Little landscape’
‘Valley of seclusion’
‘Green and woody’
‘Stony mount’
‘Bare bleak mountain’
‘Jasmin’
‘Myrtyle’
Quotes
Descriptions of home he remembers
‘quiet Dell! dear Cot’
‘dream away the entrusted hours/
On rose-leaf beds, pampering the coward heart’
Quotes
Descriptions of other people
‘Unnumber’d bretherin’
‘Benefactor’ —> benefits helped
A03 Christian beliefs and theme : religion
‘Omnipresence!’ - God is omnipresent - joy
‘Science, freedom, and the truth in Christ’ - believer Christianity can give freedom- not supportive like Wordsworth believes
‘Speed it, O father! Let thy Kingdom come’
- belief determination to help and receive Gods help - prayer
Comparisons in conclusions between Eolian Harp ROHLPOR
Eolian Harp - contentment needed with marriage, home, nature and Christianity
ROHLAPOR
you need to be active and less passive to obtain freedom for all humanity
Only then can you come back to the content of nature and happiness
Theme: freedom
Coleridge goes to help those who’s lives are not as provilidged as his
‘I therefore go, and join head, heart and hand…to fight the bloodless fight’
‘Me thinks it calm’d his thirst of idle gold’
Theme brotherhood:
‘I therefore go, and join head, heart and hand…to fight the bloodless fight’
Theme: importance of nature
‘Myrtle’ ‘Jasmins’
‘Pretty Cot’
‘It calm’d his thirst of idle gold’
Theme religion
‘I therefore go, and join head, heart and hand, Active and firm to fight the bloodless fight Of science, freedom and the Truth I’m Christ’
‘Shoreless ocean’ ‘It seem’d like Omnipresence’
Theme
Horror awe and wonder
‘A wealthy son saunter by…eyed our cottage…”
“Me thought it Calm’d his thirst of idle gold’
