1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Eolian Harp
"Where the breeze warbles and the mute still Air/ Is Music slumbering on its instrument" (Coleridge, 627, 32-33). ... The ideas that manifest from this union of the creative and inanimate are related to the beautiful nature of music. ... The chosen "boldlier" reinforces the dissimilarity between the "coy" music the harp produces as a result of a "desultory breeze" and the music formed when wind more boldly sweep the strings of the harp. ... 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 a...
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- Approx Pages: 6
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate