Coleridge: Imagination

     According to lots of troubles in Coleridge’s lifetime, I think that they seem to strengthen his imagination, especially on his writings. When he was a student in Cambridge, he was troubled by discussions about the nature of society and the idealism of the French Revolution. In addition, Coleridge’s marriage was collapsed, and his friendship with Wordsworth was ended in his later life. Due to these troubles, this might be the turning point to show how Coleridge became an idealism and imaginative writer. In other words, I strongly think that his troubles led him to be a poet because it might be a good way for him to express and release his pressures. He might think that he didn’t have many good memories during his lifetime, so he chose to be a poet. He seemed to create a world that only he could understand what was going on, and he was the only person who could control his world.