In The Eolian Harp and Frost at Midnight, Coleridge had expressed a belief in pantheism—the view that Nature is a living whole, that a Divine Spirit passes through all objects of Nature, that man can establish spiritual intercourse with Nature, and that Nature exercises an ennobling and educative influence upon man. It records a fundamental change in his life and is a lament on the decline of his creative imagination.Coleridge at this time felt that his inborn gift of imagination was decaying and that his interest was shifting to philosophy. Then hope grew around him like a creeper growing around a tree. His attempt to gaze at the green light on the western horizon is futile, The real sources of passion and life are within one’s heart and when they have dried up he cannot expect the external forces to animate him.
He looks around and sees that everything in nature is excellently fair but he is not deeply touched by anything, He sees, but does not feel.He has lost his genial spirits. Coleridge tried to sincerely tell his friends of the psychological crisis he was undergoing. Dejection: An Ode Summary. In the raving the wind he hears a prolonged scream of agony. Dejection: An Ode - Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. He cares little for this loss of joy but his loss of imagination is the real loss. © Academy of American Poets, 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038 It is corroding his mind. In "Dejection: An Ode," Coleridge also reinvents poetic traditions. It caused fear. If we are sad and dejected then the whole nature also appears gloomy to us.Ans. Later he told some people that it was addressed to Wordsworth. The poet is painfully conscious of this loss.
‘It fails to achieve complete artistic unity, it is not a whole poem.”In the four-line quote from the ‘Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence,’ there is the foreboding of a deadly storm, Such deadly storms, however destructive, bring about a change by causing a stir in the soil and making the plants sprout out of seeds. He is happy to see this redeeming joy in his ‘Lady’. The poet sees the new-moon winter bright with the old moon in her lap; the swelling storm with night-shower falling loud and fast; the stars gliding behind or between the starsMore vigorous and forceful are the lines where the sounds of the storm are compared first to the rushing of a defeated army, with groans of trampled and wounded men and then to the alternate moaning and screaming of a frightened child who has lost its way home:The poet ends on a note of tenderness for his wife. He was grief-stricken at the thought that his interest in abstruse In a word, or sigh, or tear Seldom has grief found such tragic expression as in this poem which has been called “the poet’s dirge of infinite pathos over the grave of creative imagination”.
If we want to see some high or noble quality in nature, something better than the commonplace, we must send forth light, a glory, and radiance, to cover the natural objects, from our heart. At the time of birth, nature gave him great creative and imaginative powers, but his Nature gave constant unhappiness destroyed those powers. The extract from a ballad, quoted at the very outset says that if the old Moon is in the lap of the new Moon a storm is in the offing. "Dejection: An Ode" is a historical, one-sided shoujo ai romance, set in late 1790s England.
The poet says that nature is inanimate and it reflects our mood only. In the night the storm may blow and the stars may twinkle, but they cannot touch the person in profound sleep. The beauty of natural objects can no more lift from his heart the overwhelming burden of his grief. “Sadder lines than these were never perhaps written by any poet in the description of his own feelings.” It is much sadder and more tragic than Shelley’s Stanzas Written in a Near Naples.A very important point about this poem is that Coleridge here contradicts his own previous view of Nature, thus challenging Wordsworth’s Nature-creed also.
He was born with superb power of imagination but it is almost dead now. In this address to Sara Hutchins, there was a reference to some private matters which was omitted later on.The final version was printed in the Morning Post on October 4, Wordsworth’s wedding day. The whole of the moon is faintly visible because a bit of sunlight reached it being reflected from the earth. “Dejection: An Ode” by Coleridge is originally a poem about the depressed state the poet finds himself in.
Later Coleridge cut it short to 139 lines and divided it into eight parts. Wordsworth tried to overcome fear by turning to the religio-philosophical explanation of the soul’s journey, and to a large extent revived mental strength again. In the former and it is May and the sun shines warm; in the latter, it is the month of showers.Ans. May no ‘dejection’ be in her life.Q. Dejection: An Ode is a deeply personal and autobiographical poem of Coleridge in which he describes his spiritual and moral loss, and the loss of creative imagination. The poet addresses his wife Sara in the second stanza of the poem.Ans. Late late yestreen I saw the new Moon With the old Moon in her arms And I fear I fear My Master dear . And the slant night-shower driving loud and fast!Those sounds which oft have raised me, whilst they awed,Might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live!The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.Life, and Life’s effluence, cloud at once and shower,That lute sent forth! Man receives from nature what he gives to nature. May she rise with light heart, gay fancy, cheerful eyes!These are the only lines which to some extent lighten the heavy gloom of the whole poem.Interesting points of comparison and contrast at once occur to us between this ode and Wordsworth’s Ode on the Intimations of Immortality. Hundreds of famous, classical poems to browse, study, or send to a friend. It was originally addressed to Wordsworth and subsequently ‘William’ was replaced by ‘Lady’.