Poems of Coleridge :
Poems of Coleridge Among the poets of the 19th century Coleridge is the most fragmentary and unsystematic. Of the three poems on which his fame traditionally rests, only The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is complete. "Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan' are merely fragmentary. Apart from these three great poems, he also wrote The Lime-Tree Bower My Prison' - a poem of hope and joy as experienced by the poet, 'Frost at Midnight', which subscribes to the theory of pantheistic philosophy – presence of divine spirit in nature, 'Dejection:
An Ode', and Youth and Age' express poet's sense of failure of creative powers. He also composed some political poems like France: An Ode', which underlines the disgust caused by the failure of the French Revolution and subsequent reign of terror; The Destruction of Bastille' extols the event, whereas The Ode on the Departing Year' fears the fall of England. Coleridge was the true pantheist who took delight in everything around him, even the weird and bizarre. In his later days, however, under the influence of German transcendental philosophy, he added a new note to it that the external world is phenomenal rather than actual and in whatever form the external objects appear is actually given to them by ourselves, i.e., Nature lives in us and the impressions we receive from it are nothing distinct from us but a reflection of our own thoughts. He, however, honestly adhered to his own view of poetry:
"the best words in the best order." In his three important poems on which his fame rests, there is an element of romance enveloped in mystery and marvel of the unknown and untravelled regions. Nature is depicted in its myriad forms - familiar and comforting, tender and soothing, cheerful and jubilant, weird and horrifying, desolate and mournful. tumultuous and perturbing. All these are linked to produce the harmony of a perfect and moral impression. To the critics most of his poems may appear to be
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