Dejection: An Ode Analysis

If you were taking a quiz about this poem's form, you'd get an A. That's because the title is a total tip off. "Dejection: an Ode" is written in the form of—wait for it—an ode. A's for everyone...

Our speaker, friends, is depressed. He's down at the mouth. He's bumming. He's got a critical case of frownitis. However you describe him, it's clear that this guy is not enjoying life. He even wis...

Like any good Romantic poet, Coleridge was an outdoorsman. We don't mean that he wore a lot of camouflage, was big on fishing, or even that he went camping all that often. More generally, though, t...

Coleridge didn't become a heavy hitter in the poetry game by not having a full range of skills in his game. You'd best believe that he's going to put those to work in this poem, catching his reader...

Those three little words mean so much, don't they? Sorry, you can put the flowers and candy away. We don't mean, "I love you." We're talking about "Dejection: an Ode."Let's start with word 1. "Deje...

We've set it elsewhere, but it's worth repeating that Coleridge was a major figure on the British Romantic scene. That doesn't mean that he was into flowers and heart-shaped candy boxes. It was mor...

You're probably going to need a parka and some decent hiking gear for this climb. After all, the language and syntax here is over 200 years old. In his day, Coleridge tried to write poems for commo...

With his buddy Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge planned on starting up a commune on the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania with ten other families. Instead, Southey backed out of the deal—b...

This speaker is too sad and troubled to bother about anything sexy.

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