The Night Sky
It's a bird. It's a plane. No wait—yeah, it's just bird. It's hard to see with all this night going on.The poem begins and ends with the night sky. In lines 1-3, the speaker muses on the lack of...
Nature's Greenery
Like the inside of our college dorm fridge, green things are growing all over the place in this poem. They're doing it in a good way here, though. Our dorm fridge was a whole lot grosser—trust us...
The Nightingale and Its Song
The nightingale is the Christina Aguilera of the bird world. Whether it's the lament of a brokenhearted young man or the joyful tune of nature's reverie, the nightingale's song weaves through the n...
Youth and Childhood
Youth plays a key part in unlocking the true poetry of nature, argues Coleridge.Throughout the poem, poets and young people are often described as one in the same. In the first stanza, "youths and...