Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.
- Why do humans associate melancholy with the nightingale's song?
- Is this poem meant just to address poets, or is it for a wider audience? How can you tell?
- How does the form of the poem serve the content? Is there a reason it doesn't rhyme?
- Why does Coleridge use allusions in this poem?
- Do you agree with the speaker that it's dangerous to project our own emotions onto nature? Why or why not?