Fears in Solitude
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Fears in Solitude’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a historically significant poem in which the speaker discusses the threats his country is facing. He has no desire to be the enemy of his country, but he does need to stand up for what he believes in.
Human Life
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Human Life’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes a speaker’s frustration with the concept that there is no purpose to life or existence after death.
Love
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Love’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge details the emotional and physical relationship between a speaker and the woman he woos through storytelling.
Metrical Feet
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Metrical Feet’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge talks about different metrical feet and provides a basic description of those feet. The poet wrote this poem for instructing his son, Derwent Coleridge.
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘In Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement’ by S. T. Coleridge considers his home as a place of great beauty and a spiritual retreat away from society.
Sonnet: To the River Otter
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Sonnet: To the River Otter’ contains a speaker’s recollections of a river and the joy it brought him when he was a child.
The Eolian Harp
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘The Eolian Harp’ by S.T. Coleridge, has been entitled after the ‘Aeolian harp’, which creates melodious music while the wind blows across its strings. It is one of Coleridge’s early conversation poems.
Time, Real and Imaginary
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Time, Real and Imaginary’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is concerned with how time progresses. The speaker uses the narrative of two children to discuss it.
Work without Hope
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
‘Work without Hope’ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge describes the ways in which Nature works and the importance of having goals, or hopes, to strive towards.