Better late than never

After having realized in class today that I totally blanked on posting my blog for the week, I thought that I may as well still contribute what I could, and maybe combine a little discussion from class today as well:

I wanted to draw similarities in Coleridge's works that we read this week in terms of his extensive sonic description. It is obvious how he is using such poetic overgrowth to portray the feelings that he experiences when listening to the sound of the instrument.

But moving on to the pieces we read today, again we see vivid descriptions of sound. In the Lime-Tree Bower, he obviously is very descriptive in terms of visual imagery, but as we noticed in class, it is important not to miss how the ending of this poem suddenly becomes all about audio imagery very visual imagery.

Again, in the "Frost at Midnight" Coleridge is focusing on the concept of silence, and one would think how could any sound be described out of silence other than no sound at all, but through the contradictory descriptions of "disturbing the calm" and "extreme silence" we see just how he harps on sound in a poem that would seem to be free from sound.

I just found this to be a major connecting thing throughout all of his pieces we read, and I find it refreshing as up until now most of the poems were intense on visual imagery rather than audible imagery... not saying that other poets were never utilizing the effects of sound in their poem, I am just saying that I have not seen it as blatantly portrayed as Coleridge has portrayed sound in his works.