Published in response to "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," it begins by citing the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens in the prologue and in the first of its eight stanzas.
Published in response to "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," it begins by citing the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens in the prologue and in the first of its eight stanzas. Originally a long verse letter to the author's beloved, it ends with the speaker unable to sleep as he wishes for the storm within in him to pass, and for the joy he cannot feel to "lift her spirit" and "attune her voice." The speaker describes how the "fruits and foliage" once seemed his, but were now lost, and compares this to his ebbing poetical powers. Though not stated outright. "the viper thoughts that coil around my mind," seem to impugn the poet's growing dependency on opium and his growing despair at losing Sara Hutchinson.  FTP, name this depressing poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Published in response to "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," it begins by citing the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens in the prologue and in the first of its eight stanzas.
"Dejection: An Ode"