John Taylor Gatto

was born on 7 April 1770 in Cumbria. He attended Hawkshead Grammar School, where he began to write poetry but none was published until 1793. He married Mary Hutchinson, a childhood friend, and they had five children together. Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge collaborated on Lyrical Ballad, published in 1798. William Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount on April 23, 1850, leaving his wife to publish The Prelude three months later. There is no frigate like a book There is…

Research Paper It is incredible how people describe with such detail what the brain sees. Each person has there own way of explaining or representing what they see, with little or a lot of detail and examples. There are people that have a certain connection with nature and how it affects them. William Wordsworth is an example of a person who wrote about nature, regarding how he sees it and how it affects him personally. Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet, of which whom started the Romantic…

Being selfish is human nature it can determine future relationships. Selfishness usually destroys relationships. Because of the Mariner 's selfish action, he learns to appreciate all things created through suffering and supernatural events in Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Before diving in here is some background information on an albatross. Already mentioned in the poem, an albatross is a bird (Coleridge 432). According to National Geographic, an albatross is…

Thoreau and Bryant had similar works from the fact that they were different from everyone else's point of view and, they saw their different subjects similarly. Thoreau saw solitude as a refreshing and wonderful thing to experience and Bryant saw death as a really wonderful thing, not lonely and sad. They also brought nature into their ideas as a companion and in some instances a divine being. Thoreau had some quiet, alone time with nature and writes that "some of my pleasantest hours were…

Humidity at Noon- A Modern, Mississippian Relation to ‘Frost at Midnight’ My babe so beautiful, it thrills my heart With tender gladness, thus to look at thee, And think that thou shalt learn far other lore And in far other scenes! Coleridge 53-56 I’ve grown up in a loving household; my early childhood was not nearly as dismal and troubled as many of the poets of the Romantic era were. My parents and other family members have always supported me in whatever activities I have wished to explore…

A Native American saying is, “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.” Both Puritans and Native Americans would have found this to be true after we examine their literary pieces. The first form of literature we see in America was Native American myths. These were origin myths about nature used to elaborate on the beginning of a part of creation. Then there was a shift between Native American myths to Puritan literature. Puritans used mostly poetry to…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Theme Analysis One of the major themes of the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Taylor Coleridge is isolation, especially isolation from Christ. The first sense of isolation in the poem is when the wedding guest is stopped by the Mariner outside of the church. The wedding guest is completely cut off from everyone at the wedding. The second depiction of isolation is during the Mariner’s story, his ship is blown into the Arctic and there is not a single…

The same year as his ordainment, Emerson married Ellen Tucker, and after her death (1831) from tuberculosis he resigned from the clergy, stricken with grief. The next year traveling to Europe, Emerson came into contact with Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Carlyle, a Scottish-born English…

Samuel Coolidge, author of not only Kubla Khan, but of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as well, wrote his story where real life slips into dreams and facts were reborn as fantasies. “Coleridge was far from being the most famous British writer in France during the first half of the nineteenth century”(Soubigou). Coolidge dared the journey inward and continue deep into the world of the imagination. His hunger for new ideas led him into radical politics and soon found himself suffering from asthma…

emphasis on imagination as a method of creative expression, conveying the notion that knowledge exists outside of the self. Possibly the most intricate understanding of the imagination, its ramifications and its advantages is best introduced in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison.” Throughout this conversation poem, Coleridge introduces the bower as a symbol for the confines of the natural world, acting as a metaphorical prison. This is apparent when the speaker is…