Implications of Solipsism in Samuel Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" and "Dejection: An Ode"
Manal Aburumman,
Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh
Abstract:Objectives: This research aims to examine Samuel Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" (1798) and "Dejection: An Ode" (1802). It explores the implications of solipsism in these two poems.
Methods: To achieve this purpose, the research reviews some major works in philosophy that dwell on solipsism, briefly traces the evolution of solipsism, how some philosophers and literary critics define and employ the concept in literature, and how solipsism specifically features Coleridge’s thought. Through a critical and a… Show more
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