ENGL 2027 Chapter : Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3 Poems
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The speaker recalls a poem that tells the tale of sir patrick spence: in this poem, the moon takes on a certain strange appearance that presages the coming of a storm. The speaker declares that if the author of the poem possessed a sound understanding of weather, then a storm will break on this night as well, for the moon looks now as it did in the poem. The speaker wishes ardently for a storm to erupt, for the violence of the squall might cure his numb feeling. He says that he feels only a dull pain, a grief without a pang a constant deadening of all his feelings. Speaking to a woman whom he addresses as o lady, he admits that he has been gazing at the western sky all evening, able to see its beauty but unable fully to feel it.
