The Truth of Imagination
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Oct 6 '11
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..whether the eave-drops fall Heard only in the trances of the blast,
Frost at Midnight, read by Nigel Planer. One of the greatest of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘conversation’ poems.
Addressed to his son, Hartley, it expresses the hope that he will be able to experience a life connected to nature. Imagery redolent with the sublime sights and sounds of the Lake District contrasts with the restricted London and school life of Coleridge himself as he recognizes his loneliness as a child and looks to nature as a comforter.
I love the lines:
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