Coleridge is generally known as a poet who loved the supernatural world, but. in fact, he was also a poet who expressed well his experience that was full of humane love and despair. His life was that of failure. He was born with superior talent but co...
Coleridge is generally known as a poet who loved the supernatural world, but. in fact, he was also a poet who expressed well his experience that was full of humane love and despair. His life was that of failure. He was born with superior talent but could not fully display it. and the disappointment and sorrow he felt that are well expressed in his conversation poems.
His failure started with his erroneous marriage. He married thoughtlessly to an ordinary woman, and his deep love for his wife and child are well expressed in his early conversation poems. But in time he realized his wife was not fit for him, and those feelings of disappointment were deepened by his meeting with his ideal women, Dorothy and Sara Hutchinson. In particular, his love to Sara Hutchinson was deep. and that hopeless love caused only his addiction more disappointment and despair. In the second place, indulgence to opium, caused by his weak will power, ruined his health. domestic life and his finances. His failure in poetic ability and desperation because of opium addiction was well known. His desperation was deepened further in comparing himself to Wordsworth who was successful in all aspects.
The love, friendship, desperation and pain of the poet are well expressed in his conversation poems. This proves that Coleridge is a poet who not only pursued the mystic. supernatural world but also had a deep love for his surrounding, ordinary world. This proves another aspect of Coleridge's romanticism.