1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Eolian Harp
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp" uses the concept of a musical instrument to represent imagery of the creative mind. An Eolian harp, or more commonly Aeolian harp named after the Greek god Aeolus, the god of the wind, is a musical instrument intended to be played by the wind. It is easy to see why such a beautiful model would draw the mind of a poet. Not only that, he ... that the affected harps might tremble in the sense of awe and their feeling of the sublime, in addition to the actual physical trembling from the fact that they are experiencing the power of the divine affecting t...
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