We in ourselves rejoice! friend devoutest of my choice, Fragment 1: Sea-ward, white gleaming thro' the busy scud, Fragment 2: I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish. On that green light that lingers in the west: The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Which long has raved unnoticed. The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, For not to think of what I needs must feel. It tells another tale, with sounds less deep and loud! The poet is painfully conscious of this loss. It were a vain endeavour, Dejection: An Ode Late, late yestreen I saw the new moon, With the old moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my master dear! Joy that ne'er was given. Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence. I see them all so excellently fair, “Dejection” was written in 1802 but was originally drafted in the form of a letter to Sara Hutchinson, the woman Coleridge loved. And still I gaze—and with how blank an eye! As is suggested by its very title, Coleridge wrote this ode in a mood of dejection and despair. The final version holds the reader in an act of high, rhetorical attention, around the proposition that external nature cannot heal the poet (as Wordsworth believed it could) whose own powers are failing [...] Yet however much 'Dejection' is to be preferred as a finished work of art, the 'Letter' draws more directly on Coleridge's true imaginative life. And fruits, and foliage, not my own, seemed mine. Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my Master dear! We shall have a deadly storm. "Dejection: An Ode" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1802. Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade Those sounds which oft have raised me, whilst they awed. *Part I*. [10], https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43973/dejection-an-ode, Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dejection:_An_Ode&oldid=1002335619, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 23:16. "Dejection: An Ode" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1802. Eventually, Coleridge cut himself off from Hutchinson and renounced his feelings for her, which ended the problems that resulted in the poem. To other thoughts by yonder throstle woo'd, The passion and the life, whose fountains are within. I may not hope from outward forms to win This date corresponding to Wordsworth's wedding to Mary Hutchinson and Coleridge's own wedding anniversary. Dejection: An Ode Lyrics. We shall have a deadly storm. The relationship between him and his wife was restarted and they had a daughter in December 1802. Home He imagines that a listener is listening his hue and cry or whatever his stance is. We shall have a deadly storm. The speaker recalls a poem that tells the tale of SirPatrick Spence: In this poem, the moon takes on a certain strangeappearance that presages the coming of a storm. Partly, these feelings were fueled by his inability to accept his opium addiction and other problems. “Dejection: An Ode” is an ode in eight stanzas that vary greatly in the number of lines, the length of line, and in thought and imagery. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the premier poet-critic of modern English tradition, distinguished for the scope and influence of his thinking about literature as much as for his innovative verse. The poet feels that the poet within him is dead. However, Coleridge cannot find anything positive in his problems, and he expresses how he feels paralyzed by his emotions. The speaker wishes ardentlyfor a storm to erupt, for the violence of the squall might curehis numb feeling. 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