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Our birth is nothing but a sleep and a forgetting. To Search: Biografia Literaria (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Expostulation and Reply The Tables Turned -

Esemplastic shaping or having the po er to shape disparate things into a unified hole! bringing together or able to bring together different concepts and thoughts into a unified hole "e.g. the esemplastic ability of imagination# $rom %hapter & Esemplastic. The ord is not in 'ohnson( nor have ) met it else here* +either have ). ) constructed it myself from ,ree- ords( to shape into one because( having to convey a ne sense( ) thought that a ne term ould both aid the recollection of my meaning( and prevent its being confounded ith the usual import of the ord( imagination. .ords orth Render the familiar unfamiliar %oleridge Render the unfamiliar familiar .e are Seven --------/ S)012E %hild(
That lightly dra s its breath( /nd feels its life in every limb( .hat should it -no of death3 ) met a little cottage ,irl: She as eight years old( she said! 4er hair as thic- ith many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic( oodland air( /nd she as ildly clad: 4er eyes ere fair( and very fair! --4er beauty made me glad. 7Sisters and brothers( little 0aid( 4o many may you be37 74o many3 Seven in all(7 she said /nd ondering loo-ed at me. 7/nd here are they3 ) pray you tell.7 She ans ered( 7Seven are e! /nd t o of us at %on ay d ell( /nd t o are gone to sea. 7T o of us in the church-yard lie( 0y sister and my brother! /nd( in the church-yard cottage( ) 56

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9 ell near them ith my mother.7 7:ou say that t o at %on ay d ell( /nd t o are gone to sea( :et ye are seven;--) pray you tell( S eet 0aid( ho this may be.7 Then did the little 0aid reply( 7Seven boys and girls are e! T o of us in the church-yard lie( =eneath the church-yard tree.7 7:ou run about( my little 0aid( :our limbs they are alive! )f t o are in the church-yard laid( Then ye are only five.7 7Their graves are green( they may be seen(7 The little 0aid replied( 7T elve steps or more from my mother>s door( /nd they are side by side. ?6 70y stoc-ings there ) often -nit( 0y -erchief there ) hem! /nd there upon the ground ) sit( /nd sing a song to them. 7/nd often after sunset( Sir( .hen it is light and fair( ) ta-e my little porringer( /nd eat my supper there. 7The first that died as sister 'ane! )n bed she moaning lay( Till ,od released her of her pain! /nd then she ent a ay. 7So in the church-yard she as laid! /nd( hen the grass as dry( Together round her grave e played( 0y brother 'ohn and ). 7/nd hen the ground as hite ith sno ( /nd ) could run and slide( 0y brother 'ohn as forced to go( /nd he lies by her side.7 74o many are you( then(7 said )( 7)f they t o are in heaven37 Buic- as the little 0aid>s reply( 7O 0aster; e are seven.7 7=ut they are dead! those t o are dead; Their spirits are in heaven;7 >T as thro ing ords a ay! for still The little 0aid ould have her ill( /nd said( 7+ay( e are seven;7 @6 <6

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and exploration of a number of oppositions. )n one of his 2etters( %oleridge rites*)n all subCects of deep and lasting )nterest( you ill detect a struggle bet een t o opposites( t o polar $orces( both of hich are ali-e necessary to our human .ell-being( and necessary each to the continued existence of the other.* D+O O0+)/ TOTDS )+ /+)T4)TES)S 9)S%OR9)/ %O+%ORS %O)+%)9E+T)/ O11OS)TORD0 %O+ST/+T)/ )+ /9EERS)S

)n his +oteboo-s he avers: Fbring me t o things that seem the very same and then ) am Guic- enough to sho the difference( even to the hair-splitting*. )n his +oteboo-s he admits there is an inevitable 9ialectics in everyday life:*the necessary form of dialectic..( the evolutions of Truth by means of logical %ontradictions.* %oleridge often announced the intellectual merit of reducing antitheses to some higher principle in hich both are contained. =ut %oleridge>s po er lies in the experience and exploration of division( in the dialectics of live( rather than the unity of contradictions. %oleridge attempts to give an axiom about divisions: F/ll opposition is a tendency to reunion* %oleridge>s thesis seems to be inter grant part of the counter-Enlightenment movement( part of its general revolt against the founding principle of the 1latonic traditions: That is FOne is ,ood( 0any-9iversity-is bad( since the truth is one( and only error is multiple*!*The Truth is one and incapable of self-contradiction.* %oleridge is the one hom FThe unity of all has been revealed* the might unity )n all hich e behold and feel( and are* The 1relude. 4e believes in the plural self in hich =yron luxuriates. F) almost thin- that the same s-inH $or one ithout has to or three ithin.* 4e believes though in the unity of heart and denies hatever reflects selfcontradiction: F)ntroduce no contradiction into thy o n consciousness... hatsoever thou dost( do it in singleness of heart. )n one of his 2etter he says that Fall his vanity that does not lead to Buietness and Dnity of 4eart*. 'ohn Ieats-Ode on a ,recian Drn