ENG308Y1 Lecture 7: Coleridge, To Wordsworth
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Thoughts too deep for words reference to the end of ode to immorality. Central paradox: recognizing that wordsworth"s thoughts are too deep for words but. Recognition of the basic inevitability of encountering a limit to language and expression. Poets use ones experience in the city as a challenge. Ways in which he differentiates himself from wordsworth. In the prelude, the poem is addressed to coleridge. The ways in which coleridge represents himself as diluting his creative energy by studying philosophy. An engagement with the world brings with an engagement to other subjectivity that sees thing differently from ourselves. Friend of the wisethoughts all too deep for words. What is the significance of coleridge addressing wordsworth with the recognition that he has written poetry about thoughts all too deep for words? also that wordsworth can"t put into poetic language his thoughts but at least wordsworth gets closer.
