...lift the smothering weight from off my breast ? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze forever On that green light that lingers in the west. I may...passion and the life, whose fountains are within." In another strain of the same ode the important imaginative truth is set forth :— " From the soul...

...the smothering weight from off my breast t It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the West, I may...passion and the life whose fountains are within." Give Coleridge a canvass, and he will paint a single mood as if his colors were made of the mind's...

...what Yeats might have called the 'terrible beauty' of the Lakes. Quoting from 'Dejection: An Ode', '"I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life whose fountains are within'", De Quincey describes this dislocation of sensibility, the failure to connect the historicized subject...

...Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. Wordsworth, 'Tintern Abbey' / may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. ST Coleridge, 'Dejection, an Ode' There are all kinds of situations in which we need to concentrate,...

...our own human powers and patterns of understanding. As Coleridge cries out in "Dejection: An Ode": O Lady! We receive but what we give, And in our life...live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! This different handling of personification (and allegory; marks one of the shifts we find from Romantic...

...Literatur bezogen. So sei die christli10 Thorpe: "Coleridge on the Sublime". AaO, 197. " vgl. auch: 'O Lady! we receive but what we give,/ And in our life alone does nature live:/ Ours is her wedding-garment. ours her shroud' (STC, 'Dejection. An Ode', 49). 12 Coleridges Würdigung des physiko-theologischen...

...lift the smothering weight from off my breast? It were a vain endeavour, Though I should gaze for ever On that green light that lingers in the west: I may...passion and the life, whose fountains are within/' Schematically, the stanza divides into three sections: a3a3b5/c3c3b5/d5d6. The first sections show...

...stone). (The point is closely related to the internal vitality lamented in 'Dejection: An Ode' — 'l may not hope from outward forms to win | The passion and the life, whose fountains are within', ll. 45-6: CPW\. 365.) STC is continuing a long argument against philosophies which casts the mind as...

...Excursion of wedding the mind to nature is likewise Coleridge's. "O "Lady!" he exclaims to Sara Hutchinson, "in our life alone does Nature live: / Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!" (11. 47-49). As seems clear from Alastor and the echoes of "The Thorn" and "Nutting" that underwrite...

...deIection, his faihtre to respond to a splendid sunset, wrote O Lady, we receive hut what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live, Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud.6' But this isn't and couldn't he true, and the end of thai very poem shows *0 As far as I know,...