ClassicNote on Coleridge's Poems Table of Contents Biography of Coleridge, Samuel (1772-1834)......................................................................................................1 About Coleridge's Poems.......................................................................................................................................3 Character List.........................................................................................................................................................4 Coleridge's infant son (Hartley Coleridge)................................................................................................4 Kubla Khan................................................................................................................................................4 The Lady (Coleridge's lover, Sara Hutchinson).........................................................................................4 William Wordsworth.................................................................................................................................4 Dorothy Wordsworth.................................................................................................................................5 The young woman who listens to the nightingales....................................................................................5 Christabel...................................................................................................................................................5 Geraldine....................................................................................................................................................5 Sir Leoline..................................................................................................................................................5 Lord Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine.........................................................................................................6 Bracy the Bard...........................................................................................................................................6 Major Themes.........................................................................................................................................................7 Childhood...................................................................................................................................................7 Innocence...................................................................................................................................................7 Man's relationship with nature...................................................................................................................7 Dreams/Sleep.............................................................................................................................................8 Imagination................................................................................................................................................8 Happiness...................................................................................................................................................8 Evening/Night............................................................................................................................................9 Glossary of Terms................................................................................................................................................10 bard..........................................................................................................................................................10 capricious.................................................................................................................................................10 cedarn.......................................................................................................................................................10 cincture.....................................................................................................................................................10 conversational poem................................................................................................................................10 dulcimier..................................................................................................................................................10 Eolian.......................................................................................................................................................10 genial........................................................................................................................................................10 grove........................................................................................................................................................11 luminous...................................................................................................................................................11 i Table of Contents Glossary of Terms lyric poem................................................................................................................................................11 mastiff......................................................................................................................................................11 melancholy...............................................................................................................................................11 nightingale...............................................................................................................................................11 ode............................................................................................................................................................11 palfrey......................................................................................................................................................11 Romanticism............................................................................................................................................12 sonnet.......................................................................................................................................................12 speaker.....................................................................................................................................................12 wonted......................................................................................................................................................12 Short Summary....................................................................................................................................................13 Quotes and Analysis.............................................................................................................................................15 Summary and Analysis of "Christabel" (Part I, 1797; Part II, 1800; "The Conclusion to Part II," 1801)......................................................................................................................................................................20 Summary and Analysis of "Kubla Khan" (1798).............................................................................................25 Summary and Analysis of "Sonnet: To the River Otter" (1793).....................................................................27 Summary and Analysis of "The Nightingale" (1798).......................................................................................29 Summary and Analysis of "Dejection: An Ode" (1802)...................................................................................32 Summary and Analysis of "Frost at Midnight" (1798)....................................................................................35 Related Links........................................................................................................................................................38 Suggested Essay Questions..................................................................................................................................39 The "Willing Suspension of Disbelief"...............................................................................................................42 ii Table of Contents Author of ClassicNote and Sources....................................................................................................................43 Essay: Lifeblood...................................................................................................................................................44 Quiz 1.....................................................................................................................................................................47 Quiz 1 Answer Key...............................................................................................................................................52 Quiz 2.....................................................................................................................................................................53 Quiz 2 Answer Key...............................................................................................................................................58 Quiz 3.....................................................................................................................................................................59