Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 3 poems for his birth

October 21 1772 was born Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Ottery St. Mary. English poet, critic and philosopher, he was one of the founders of Romanticism In England. Some of his best known works are Kubla khan and Ballad of the Old Sailor. But there were many more poems. Today I rescue 3 of them to remember.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge had a strict primary education in a boarding school from London and later went to study at University of Cambridge. He was not a good student, but he was associated with important poets from whose friendship his first publications came: The fall of Robespierre y Miscellaneous poems.

In 1798, and together with the great poet William Wordsworth, contributed to the evolution of the Romantic era in English literature with his joint publication of Lyrical balladswork that marked the beginning of the English romantic period. On a personal level, his unrequited love by Dorothy Wordsworth, the sister of his friend, has always marked him in his vision of love.

Another of his interests was The philosophy and, attracted by the figure of LaceHe went to Germany where he deepened his knowledge. He was also living in Italy for a time. Multiple personal problems, including marital and diseases such as anxiety and depression, which led him to become addicted to opium and laudanum, they were taking him away from his family. He ended up taking refuge in a friend's house where he wrote more works such as Literary biography o Sibylline leaves. He died in London in July 1834.

In general, however, Coleridge's work takes us back in time, makes us travel to an uncertain past, and often unreal, which is one of the main characteristics of Romanticism as a literary movement. And was able to mix that romantic philosophy with other more human nuances and profane.

3 poems

Despair

I've experienced the worst
The worst the world can forge
That which is woven by indifferent life,
Disturbing in a whisper
The prayer of the dying.
I have contemplated the whole, tearing apart
In my heart the interest in life,
To be dissolved and away from my hopes,
Nothing remains now. Why live then?
That hostage, that the world holds captive
Giving the promise that I'm still alive
That hope of a woman, the pure faith
In his immobile love, who celebrated his truce in me
With the tyranny of love, they are gone.
Where?
What can I answer?
They left! I should break the infamous pact,
This blood bond that binds me to myself!
In silence I have to do it.

***

Frost at midnight

The frost fulfills its secret office
without the help of the wind. An owl capsizes
his shriek in the night -hear- immense.
Everyone rests and I give myself to that
loneliness that encourages delirium.
He is only next to me, in his cradle,
the restful sleep of my son.
It's so quiet! So much that it mobs
the thought with its extreme and rare
be quiet. Sea, hill and grove,
next to this town! Sea, hill and forest
with the daily routine of life,
inaudible like dreams! The blue flame
still at home, she no longer trembles;
only that tape interrupts the calm,
still flailing on the fence.
Your wiggle in the calm of this scene
gives a resemblance to my life,
takes a friendly form whose
flimsy flaming makes a toy
of thought and is interpreted
in its own way for the soul, which seeks
in everything a mirror of itself.

***

The presence of love

And in the noisiest hours of reason,
There is still an incessant whisper: I love you;
Sole consolation and soliloquy of the heart.

You mold my hope, clothed inside me;
Leading all my palpitations, flowing in my pain.
You lie in my many thoughts, like the light,
Like the sweet light of twilight
Or the anticipation of summer breaking in the creek,
Clouds reflected in a lake.

And looking up at the sky that arches over you,
Very often, I bless the god who has made me love you like this.


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