poets. His poetry rightly sustains the true spirit of Romanticism. While being the joint initiator of the Romantic Movement with Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), Coleridge introduced somewhat a new subject to the audience. Unlike his partner, who concentrated on the natural beauty, Coleridge opted to write on the supernatural aspects of nature. In his poetry Coleridge introduced a wide varieties of bizarre and unbelievable topics. His style of narration has a dramatic quality and is capable of arresting the reader’s attention. His portrayal of character and events are so compelling that the audience is bound to accept the improbable as real by willingly suspending disbeliefs.
Coleridge invests his masterful storytelling technique very well in his The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), which is one of his widely quoted poems. The subject poetry tells the story of an old mariner who wantonly killed an innocent albatross, for which he and his comrades had to suffer a lot. Here Coleridge shows how sufferings from transgression can ultimately be atoned through feeling love for all living creatures, both small and big. Except for its didacticism, the poem is also commended for the mysticism created by the strange old mariner and the overall bizarre environment.
Although valued by many to be the greatest contributors of supernatural poetry, Coleridg’s literary output is rather short. Throughout his life he planned a lot but ultimately could complete only a scanty number of poems. Apart from the finished ones he has a number of fragmentary works, such as Kubla Khan (1816), Christabel (1816) which are deemed to be great treasures of English Literature.
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