Themes (OCR A-Level English Literature): Flashcards

Divine creative power within all humans

Power to shape diverse elements into unity

Divine unity that heals human fragmentation

Poem grows naturally; form & content inseparable

Imaginative force connecting all creation

We receive but what we give; nature lives in our life

Supernatural figure Mariner encounters during punishment

Coleridge projects wandering desire onto son Hartley

Irregular, natural meter mimicking organic vitality

Reader accepts supernatural/improbable in literature