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Samuel Taylor Coleridge BIO poem The Eolian Harp

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one of the greatest of the English Romantic poets. He was born on 21 October 1772 in Devonshire 'shaire'), the ninth and youngest son of Rev John Coleridge and Anne Bowden. His father died when he was eight and in July 1782, he entered Christ's Hospital school in London and became an outstanding classical scholar, though he was lonely and homesick in the city.

Coleridge entered Jesus College, Cambridge, but left without taking a degree. It was at Cambridge that he became interested in utopian and revolutionary politics. After 1794, along with Robert Southey, he drew up plans for a utopian society to be in America, known as "Pantisocracy". The scheme collapsed, but through it he met, and married, Sarah Fricker, a marriage that was at first happy, but was to prove a complete failure.

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Coleridge was to enter the church to make a living, but an annuity of 150 given him by Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood in 1798 freed him to be able to write poetry. 

By this time he had met William Wordsworth and the great literary partnership began. Wordsworth and his sister moved to be near the Coleridges at Nether Stowey in Somersetshire. 

In 1798 the pair published Lyrical Ballads, designed to revolutionise the style and subject matter of English poetry and it was between July 1797 and July 1798 that Coleridge wrote his greatest poems: 'Kubla Khan', 'Frost at midnight', 'Christabel', 'France: an ode' and 'The rime of the ancient mariner'.

From 1799, he was writing regular political articles for the Morning Post. In 1800 Coleridge moved to the Lake District with the Wordsworths and they prepared a new edition of the Lyrical Ballads, though Wordsworth omitted 'Christabel', leading to Coleridge's increasing lack of confidence in himself - a problem compounded by his failing marriage and love for Sara Hutchinson, a friend of Wordsworth's. 

By now he was also addicted to opium, and this addiction was deepened by various sojourns abroad. He returned to England in 1806, and finally separated from Sarah Fricker. He returned to journalism at this time and friends gathered around financially, though he fell out with Wordsworth in 1810 over his addiction.

 Use your mouse to explore some of the pivotal events of Coleridge's life

 

Coleridge was to enter the church to make a living, but an annuity of 150 given him by Thomas and Josiah Wedgwood in 1798 freed him to be able to write poetry. By this time he had met William Wordsworth and the great literary partnership began. Wordsworth and his sister moved to be near the Coleridges at Nether Stowey in Somersetshire. In 1798 the pair published Lyrical Ballads, designed to revolutionise the style and subject matter of English poetry and it was between July 1797 and July 1798 that Coleridge wrote his greatest poems: 'Kubla Khan', 'Frost at midnight', 'Christabel', 'France: an ode' and 'The rime of the ancient mariner'.

From 1799, he was writing regular political articles for the Morning Post. In 1800 Coleridge moved to the Lake District with the Wordsworths and they prepared a new edition of the Lyrical Ballads, though Wordsworth omitted 'Christabel', leading to Coleridge's increasing lack of confidence in himself - a problem compounded by his failing marriage and love for Sara Hutchinson, a friend of Wordsworth's. By now he was also addicted to opium, and this addiction was deepened by various sojourns abroad. He returned to England in 1806, and finally separated from Sarah Fricker. He returned to journalism at this time and friends gathered around financially, though he fell out with Wordsworth in 1810 over his addiction.

From 1811 to 1815, he gave a highly successful series of lectures on Shakespeare and Milton, produced a successful play, made great progress on his Biographia Literaria and made great efforts to reduce his drug-taking.

From 1816 till his death in 1834, he lived under the friendly care of Dr Gillman in Highgate. From Highgate, he published a number of his works, continued political journalism and delivered further lecture series. It was in this period from 1811 till his death that he published many of the prose essays and philosophical tracts that established his reputation alongside his poetry, as well as completing Biographia Literaria, though he never finished the work embodying his entire philosophical system, the Opus Maximum.

Conversation poems express the poet's feelings.

Conversation poems are addressed to imagined or real friends.

The term "Conversation poem" is a term Coleridge himself used (see 'The Nightingale') and has come to refer to those poems in which the poet is aware of the imagined or real presence of a loved one, and the poems are partly addressed to these friends in a conversational tone, concerning the poet's own feelings. Coleridge wrote that the most interesting passages in our most interesting Poems are those, in which the Author develops his own feelings.

The term "Conversation poem" itself relates to a phrase Coleridge had used about an earlier English poet, William Cowper. At a time when he felt that his own poetry was too forced, mannered and inflated, he had turned to Cowper who had what Coleridge saw as a relaxed, informal, natural style. He referred to Cowper's style as "divine chit chat", and tried to achieve it these poems of blank verse - hence the phrase, "Conversation poems".

The best known Conversation poems are:

'The Eolian Harp,

Frost at Midnight,

This Lime-Tree Bower, my Prison,

The Nightingale

and

Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement.'

Because they adopt the tone of natural conversation, these poems appear artless, but in fact they are highly structured and carefully created. One of the techniques that Coleridge uses, for example, is that of moving from one subject to another because of the associations that a particular word might have - just as in a real conversation.

Coleridge referred to William Cowper's poetical style as "divine chit chat" and aimed to achieve this quality in his own work.

The best known Conversation poems are:

'The Eolian Harp,

Frost at Midnight,

This Lime-Tree Bower, my Prison,

The Nightingale

and

Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement.'

Because they adopt the tone of natural conversation, these poems appear artless, but in fact they are highly structured and carefully created. One of the techniques that Coleridge uses, for example, is that of moving from one subject to another because of the associations that a particular word might have - just as in a real conversation.

conversation poems move like the beat of a heart they expand and contract as the poet considers his concrete self and the wider world.

Coleridge critic, Albert Guerard, in an important essay 'The systolic rhythm: the structure of Coleridge's Conversation poems', coined the term "systolic rhythm" to refer to the structure of these poems. The term refers to the notion that the Conversation poems move like the beat of a heart - systole and diastole - contracting and expanding as the poet wanders to and fro between his concrete, immediate self and the wider world.

From the early 17th century to the late 18th century, the dominant intellectual force in Europe was reason. This was the 'Age of Reason'.

It is represented by writers such as Francis Bacon:

'Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.' (1620)

or

Alexander Pope:

'Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, 

The proper study of mankind is Man.' (1733)

The Romantics, however, revolted against this "tyranny of reason" and demanded recognition of the importance of imagination and feeling. They perceived reason as aligned with science and technology and partly blamed these forces for the ugliness of the Industrial Revolution. In revolting against this, the Romantics proclaimed a new appreciation of Nature - not the nature of private parks under human control that Pope had so loved, but Nature wild and solitary and untamed.

 Age of reason

celebrated 'social man' rather than the individual.

focused on intellectual thought and reason.

Romanticism

emphasised imagination and feeling

expressed an appreciation of wild, solitary and untamed nature.

proclaimed the power of the individual self.

represented artists as godlike figures.

From the early 17th century to the late 18th century, the dominant intellectual force in Europe was reason. This was the 'Age of Reason'.

It is represented by writers such as Francis Bacon:

'Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.' (1620)

or

Alexander Pope:

'Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, 

The proper study of mankind is Man.' (1733)

The Romantics, however, revolted against this "tyranny of reason" and demanded recognition of the importance of imagination and feeling. They perceived reason as aligned with science and technology and partly blamed these forces for the ugliness of the Industrial Revolution. In revolting against this, the Romantics proclaimed a new appreciation of Nature - not the nature of private parks under human control that Pope had so loved, but Nature wild and solitary and untamed.

 Coleridge critic, Albert Guerard, in an important essay 'The systolic rhythm: the structure of Coleridge's Conversation poems', coined the term "systolic rhythm" to refer to the structure of these poems. The term refers to the notion that the Conversation poems move like the beat of a heart - systole and diastole - contracting and expanding as the poet wanders to and fro between his concrete, immediate self and the wider world.

 

 

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listening speaking practice

 

new words vocabulary

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1.1. The role of cognates in vocabulary development

 1.1. The role of cognates in vocabulary development

The facilitating role of cognates in the L2 vocabulary learning process has long

been recognized (cf. Sweet 1972 [1899]). Cognates are words in two or more

languages which share phonological and/or orthographic form, and normally

(but not necessarily) are also related semantically. Ringbom (1987: 41) makes

the common sense observation that .[w]hen both phonological and semantic

similarity work together, the effect is like that of a magnet attracting a new word

to be stored in the learner.s mental lexicon when he meets it for the first time. In

this way, cognates have been recognized as significant sources of positive

transfer (Ringbom 1987; Odlin 1989; Nation 1990). Not surprisingly, the same

authors have pointed out that phonological similarity without (sufficient)

semantic overlap, in the familiar cases of false cognates (faux amis), will lead to

negative transfer (or interference).

Very little experimental work has been conducted by applied linguists on the

effects of cognates in vocabulary learning (although cf. Ard and Homburg

1983). There

collocation meaning and examples

 The term collocation will be used to refer to sequences of lexical items

which habitually co-ocur, but which are nonetheless fully transparent in

the sense that each lexical constituent is also a semantic constituent. Such

expressions as fine weahter, torrencial rain, high winds are examples of

collocations5 (VICO, 2006, p. 6).

Idioms are an important part of the colloquial language.

idioms 

Idioms are an important part of the colloquial language. Even if people are

not aware of it, they are used very frequently in every day speech and very

often, when people have a conversation, they can be used without noticing

them. For this reason idiomatic expressions have been object of several

studies among linguists for the last decades.3

saying and statements

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sayings 2

sayings 3

sayings 4

stingy - mesquinho mesquinha

 When he was ever stingy about himself, when he considered it poor.

while imbued 2023 while -we -it's been a while - for a while

 

 

While imbued  with a melancholy streak due to the untimely death of actor Anthon Yeltchin, along with the passing of Leonard Nimoy, this latest adventure plays like a throwback from the old "Trek" series.

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English Fluency Profile

 To understand why you have trouble expressing yourself in English, let's look at what fluency really means...

what you never learn in school is that fluency is a group of 7 essential habits and abilities including:

The ability to speak without hesitation and at lenght even about unfamiliar topics.

The ability to use natural conversational words and expressions like slangs and idioms.

and the ability to speak with confidence.

These habits individually - and your fluency overall - can be visualized on what I call an English Fluency Profile.

The

English Fluency Profile of a native English speaker is filled completely Native English speakers have a strong ability to communicate, using both formal and conversational language confidently, correctly and automatically, and the easily understand other native speakers, because they learn everything in English as a complete system. 

A tipically English language learnenr, by contrast, has poorly-developed individual habits and very weak overall fluency because they receive an incomplete language education that does not prepare them for real conversations. 

Teaching is for no need to teach.

Teaching is for no need to teach. It means that teachers like us should guide students in order to make them learn by themselves throughout their whole lives until they reach an old age.

教是为了不需要教。就是说咱们当教师的人要引导他们，使他们能够自己学，自己学一辈子，学到老。  - 叶圣陶

Jiào shì wèi liǎo bù xūyào jiào. Jiùshì shuō zánmen dāng jiàoshī de rén yào yǐndǎo tāmen, shǐ tāmen nénggòu zìjǐ xué, zìjǐ xué yībèizi, xué dào lǎo.chinese

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destroços, Pedregulho

Model Heidi Yeh says an internet meme ruined her career

Model Heidi Yeh says an internet meme ruined her career and had a damaging effect of her family. Social media is a part of most people lives. We share photos and videos, laugh together at cute cat videos and memes. But how would you feel if you were the unwitting victim of a meme? That's what one model - Heidi Yeh - says happened to her when she became the focus of jokes and internet memes claiming that she'd had plastic surgery. She says it has had a huge effect on her career and family.

The Sedative Bill Cosby Procured For Sex Was Banned In The ’80s Sexual Liaisons

The Sedative Bill Cosby Procured For Sex Was Banned In The ’80s

procure - acquire - adquirir

Bill Cosby Details Sexual Liaisons With Women In Deposition

motto -slogan

motto a short sentence or phrase chosen as encapsulating the beliefs or ideals guiding an individual, family, or institution.

he soon adopted the motto “work hard and play hard.”

motivational

gandhi movie speech excerpt

I hope to express myself clearly

I hope to express myself clearly and avoid delivering unnecessary information. 

I also hope to learn more about the students that I will likely be dealing with in the following months.

book about how to improve writing skills overview

Two broad assumptions underlie this book: (1) that writing is a rational activity, and (2) that it is a valuable activity.

To say that writing is rational means nothing more than that it is an exercise of mind requiring the mastery of techniques anyone can learn. Obviously, there are limits: one cannot learn to write like Shakespeare or Charles Dickens. You

can't become a genius by reading a book.

But you don't have to be a genius to write clear, effective English. You just have to understand what writing involves and to know how to handle words and sentences and paragraphs.

That you can learn. If you do, you can communicate what you want to communicate in words other people can understand. This book will help by showing you what good writers do.

The second assumption is that writing is worth learning. It is of immediate practical benefit in almost any job or career.

Certainly there are many jobs in which you can get along without being able to write clearly. If you know how to write, however, you will get along faster and farther. There is another, more profound value to writing. We create ourselves by words. Before we are businesspeople or lawyers

or engineers or teachers, we are human beings. Our growth as human beings depends on our capacity to understand and to use language. Writing is a way of growing. No one would argue that being able to write will make you morally

better. But it will make you more complex and more interesting—in a word, more human.

What is a reading comprehension?

What is a reading comprehension?

Understanding a reading text means extracting the required information from it as efficiently as possible.