Coleridge and the Uses of Division

Perry, Seamus

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“…As a stand-alone poetic fragment and feature of Coleridge's 1816 collection of poems, "Kubla Khan" appears in many considerations of Coleridge's work, so it would be difficult to designate "classic" readings of that poem. Seamus Perry's (1999) Coleridge and the Uses of Division and John Beer's (1962) Coleridge the Visionary both contain influential readings. David Perkins's (1990) "The Imaginative Vision of Kubla Khan: Coleridge's Introductory Note" is of particular relevance to my reading because it recognizes the importance of the gap between the narrator of the note, painfully conscious as he is of his limitations, and the figure of the great Khan, with whom the poetic speaker seems to identify for the rest of the text.…”

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Imaginary Landscapes: Sublime and Saturated Phenomena in “Kubla Khan” and the Arab Dream

Falke¹

2019

Humanities

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This article considers “Kubla Khan” and the the Arab dream section from the fifth book The Prelude as precursors to the recently theorized concept of saturated phenomenality. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth insist on the limitedness of their dream subjects even as they magnify their dreamt of landscapes to heights of sublimity. Falke describes the implications that this insistence on smallness has for relating experiences of sublime landscapes to experiences of reading or writing poetry.

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Imaginary Landscapes: Sublime and Saturated Phenomena in “Kubla Khan” and the Arab Dream

Falke¹

2019

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“…4 'Rhyme might also be said', writes Seamus Perry, 'to balance the claims of oneness (two words sharing the one sound) and diversity (they must be different words)', and the way in which that balance is put under expressive strain is among the achievements of Romantic poetry. 5 In 'The Spirit's Mysteries' Hemans balances the claims of 'oneness' and 'diversity'.…”

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“…Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan: A Vision' (the 1816 title) embodies this capacity in its title, the second word of which is pronounced 'Can', 'if', as Seamus Perry notes, 'an entry in Dorothy's journal …is a joke about a water-can'. 19 Yet as the 'caverns measureless to man' (14; qtd from 1816 text) run away from Kubla's name across rhymed enjambments, the reader wonders whether powerlessness, too, is intimated. Rhyme is crucial to the poem's imaginings: swaying in accord with the 'mingled measure' (33) that accompanies the 'shadow of the dome of pleasure' (31), and clinching delight in a 'miracle of rare device' (34) with the miraculous, druggy vision of 'A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice' (35).…”

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Gleams and Dreams: Reflections on Romantic Rhyme

O’Neill¹

2017

Romanticism

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‘Gleam’ and ‘dream’: the rhyme performs a quintessential Romantic pairing and serves as a window opening on to the topic of rhyme in poetry of the period, not least through the serendipitous way in which it off-rhymes with the word ‘rhyme’ itself. Rhyme is a matter of spanning or failing to span abysses in Romantic poetry as much as it is an earnest of some ultimate harmony or fulfilment. The word ‘gleam’ suggests an intimations-inducing flash of light; ‘dream’, for its part, points towards a possibly insubstantial source or vehicle of embodiment or quest or longing. On the face of it, the coupling may seem as hackneyed as any scorner of Romantic verbal effects might wish. Yet Romantic poetry generates an ‘electric life’, in Shelley's words in A Defence of Poetry, from this and comparable verbal interknittings, The essay pays particular attention to the rhyme of ‘gleam’ and ‘dream’ in various poems, and then to rhyme's intratextual and intertextual effects in poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge; it returns at its close to themes of aspiration and affirmation often resonating through Romantic rhyme.

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“… The summarising moral has its own controversial points. Seamus Perry argues that the summary “makes a good point in an unkind way” (284). It can be said that the poem “has as its centre the affirmation of a redemptive ideal and philosophic truth,” but nevertheless, this does not mean that “it can be read as a coherent allegorical presentation of the ideas of sin, penance, and redemption, or as the poetic declaration of a particular view of the world and man's place in it” (Newey 176).…”

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Ecotheology and the Idea of Forgiveness in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kim

2014

Literature Compass

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The restoration of a proper relationship between humanity and nature is of great significance on the grounds that our contemporary society has become aware of an ecological crisis, caused by the human exploitation of the earth's resources. In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge opens up a possibility of restoring that relationship through the act of forgiving. In this article, I will show how the Mariner re‐establishes his relationship with nature through forgiveness after his shooting of the albatross. His act of violence led to the experience of disconnectedness or isolation or separation from the community and God. He, however, achieves reconciliation with them by recognising the interrelatedness between them through the power of love and the act of interpretation. What he realised in the idea of interrelatedness is concerned not with hierarchy or dominance but with mutuality, caring and love. His awareness of the I‐Thou relationship enabled the Mariner to forgive himself and to re‐establish his broken relationship with the community, nature and God, which implies an ecotheological perspective.

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Coleridge and the Uses of Division

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Imaginary Landscapes: Sublime and Saturated Phenomena in “Kubla Khan” and the Arab Dream

Imaginary Landscapes: Sublime and Saturated Phenomena in “Kubla Khan” and the Arab Dream

Gleams and Dreams: Reflections on Romantic Rhyme

Ecotheology and the Idea of Forgiveness in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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