... 's in the fact that Wordsworth developed a light, blissful ambience in many of his poems. Throughout his poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" , Wordsworth used phrases such as "I heard a thousand blended notes" while "the birds around me hopped and played" to illustrate the joyful serenity surrounding him. Even when he expressed his thought "Have I not reason to lament what man has made ... "rotting sea" and the "rotting deck". Although, towards the final paragraphs of this poem, Coleridge did introduce a slightly lighter image as he envisaged the water snakes as they swam with a "flash ...

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