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Coleridge believed that a strong, active imagination could
become a vehicle for transcending unpleasant circumstances. Many
of his poems are powered exclusively by imaginative flights, wherein
the
Coleridge used his poetry to explore conflicting issues
in philosophy and religious piety. Some critics argue that Coleridge’s
interest in philosophy was simply his attempt to understand the
imaginative and intellectual impulses that fueled his poetry. To
support the claim that his imaginative and intellectual forces were,
in fact, organic and derived from the natural world, Coleridge linked
them to God, spirituality, and worship. In his work, however, poetry,
philosophy, and piety clashed, creating friction and disorder for
Coleridge, both on and off the page. In “The Eolian Harp” (
Coleridge, Wordsworth, and other romantic poets praised
the unencumbered, imaginative soul of youth, finding images in nature
with which to describe it. According to their formulation, experiencing
nature was an integral part of the development of a complete soul
and sense of personhood. The death of his father forced Coleridge
to attend school in London, far away from the rural idylls of his
youth, and he lamented the missed opportunities of his sheltered,
city-bound adolescence in many poems, including “Frost at Midnight”
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