... and desire. By studying Rosemary Ashton's criticisms, who writes that 'Coleridge was a prey to guilty nightmares of emotional and sexual desires'43, the noticeable sexual orientation to the poem is therefore unsurprising to the reader. The use of flagrant erotic symbolism in this work can be examined in stanza 30 where Christabel's innocence is lost, 'her silken robe, her ... can also be seen in Angela Carter's The Werewolf and Wolf Alice. In contrast to the Coleridge poems, here superstition is portrayed as a primitive source of severely religious invulnerability. This is exam...

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