This Lime Tree Bower My Prison Flashcards

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Themes

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Solitude

Nature

Friendship

Trying to find consolation and peace in nature

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A03 Context

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Coleridge wrote this autobiographical poem about a visit by his friends: Charles Lamb and the Wordsworth

It reflects dissapointment at having to sit under his neighbours’ line tree due to injury rather than going on walk w friends

Poem most factual but Coleridge uses POLITICAL LICENSE when describing Charles’ dislike of London: a city he actually loved

The evil and pain Charles experiences is true- his sister stabbed their mum to death the previous year

Sara dropped milk on his foot by mistake apparently

Not philosophical
Addressed to Charles
Thought process - speaking to self
Parenthesis (brackets)

3rd conversational poem - 1st successful one? Free of conversational emblems and allegory

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A01 poetic structure

How is Coleridge feeling in the operating lines of each stanza

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Stanza 1:
-loneliness, entrapped, isolated, crippled, helpless, resentful, frustrated, self pity, abandoned
‘Prison’

Stanza 2:
Affection and sympathy 
‘!’
Implied nature will restore Charles - optimism 
‘!’ ‘Most glad’ ‘wide wide Heaven’
Stanza 3:
Relief and glad 
Peace is solitude (w nature) - sun, dell, river —> smell and sight 
He needs to appreciate nature 
‘Ah!’ ‘dream’
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What 4 semantic fields does he use in this poem

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Isolation

Places

Darkness

Light

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Semantic field of isolation and why he used it

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‘They are gone’
‘Prison’
‘Vacant’

As he is isolated from his friends

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Semantic field of place and why he uses it

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‘Ash tree’
‘Wide landscape’ 
‘Walnut tree’ 
‘Meadow’
‘Waterfall’
‘Sea’
‘Roaring dell’
‘Springy Heath’

Observing and reflecting on nature- helps create places from memory

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Semantic field of darkness and why he uses it

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‘Unsunned’
‘Twilight’
‘Dark branches’
‘Evil and pain’
‘Dimming my eyes to blindness’
‘Blackness’

Darkness of Charles’ life and Charles life in the city, which according to romantics like Coleridge —> dark

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Semantic field of light and why he uses it

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Light = revelation
‘Heaven’
‘Sun’
‘Deep radiance’
‘Barn’
‘Hue’ (colour effected by light)

Light of hope/reflection > restoration of nature, light of God/Christianity - Onamatepia

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Why is this Coleridges most accessible conversation poem.

What language features do you think makes this poem easier to understand than eolian Harp and reflections

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No question marks - so there is no uncertainty

Assertive express of emotions

No philosophical metaphors / debate

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A05- what lessons do Coleridge reach at the end of the poem

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Nature can heal

Being w our something encourages people not to take friends/nature for granted - imagine life w our then

He feels Charles - feels because of ‘calamity’- restorative power = needed more for Charles >room unified both of them

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Theme: freedom

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‘Prison!’

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Theme: imagination

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‘Now my friends emerge/ Beneath the wide wide Heaven…hilly fields’

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Theme: the importance of nature

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‘This little lime-tree bower’ ‘sooth’d me’

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