1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Eolian Harp
... wind holding the power of music. The poem succeeds in not only describing how the wind can be the player with a bow across a musical instrument, but directing attenction to the almighty power of God being a potential influence on the wind. This is supported when Coleridge writes: "That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps/ Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of ... harps that God plays are resonating with his touch, creating the music he chooses, as He takes over the role of the wind. This adaptation of God as a cause of the wind explains the effect that He ha...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate