... , many have analyzed the poem from various angles of interpretation. Some of the methods used to decipher "The Rime" have included reader-response, Marxist, new historicism, psychoanalytic, and even deconstruction analysis. While each of these alternatives provides an individualistic prospective on the poem, they are all somewhat different, and can even be objective at times depending on the reader in question ... life. After separating from his wife and becoming estranged from the Wordsworths, Samuel went through a devastating period of time. His opium consumption was at an all time hig...

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... figures are William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Friends during their own lifetimes, Wordsworth and Coleridge collaborated near the end of the eighteenth century to create "a volume that many literary historians consider to be the opening statement of Romanticism in England" (Matlak and Mellor, 681). In the Preface of this volume, titled Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems ... . Although Wordsworths "Preface" and Coleridges definition of Imagination illuminate the meaning and purpose of Romanticism, the extent to which Romantic poems truly express their vision varies. Thus...

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... , many have analyzed the poem from various angles of interpretation. Some of the methods used to decipher "The Rime" have included reader-response, Marxist, new historicism, psychoanalytic, and even deconstruction analysis. While each of these alternatives provides an individualistic prospective on the poem, they are all somewhat different, and can even be objective at times depending on the reader in question ... life. After separating from his wife and becoming estranged from the Wordsworths, Samuel went through a devastating period of time. His opium consumption was at an all time hig...

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... terrible arthritis in the form of laudanum, he later abused it as a means to escape his everyday troubles and insecurities. Despite these character flaws, he had a great sense of self-analysis that helped him to overcome his shortcomings (Kilvert 42). By this time, Coleridge's fame was growing, although his most creative days were behind him (Jack 4). The proceeds from Lyrical Ballads ... of these friends, however, was not Wordsworth. He and Coleridge had stopped speaking due to a major disagreement. The two later resolved their problems but the period of close friendship and literary c...

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• Grade Level: High School