Romanticism In The Eolian Harp
Samuel Coleridge dedicates his poem, The Eolian Harp, to his lover, and future wife, Sara Fricker. One theme I noticed throughout this poem was this childhood like behaviors that romantic poets seem to favor. Coleridge uses words like “innocence,” “Fairy-Land,” “phantasies,” and “wild.” He really goes into fantasyland and describes it. One part of the poem I found confusing, however, is how “the eolian harp” responds to an “intellectual breeze.” In Coleridge’s, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, he really shows romanticism with his wonderful naturistic descriptions. For example in lines 23-26, Coleridge writes, “of hilly fields and meadows, and the sea, with some fair bark, perhaps, whose sails light up the slip of smooth clear blue betwixt