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Anxiety and Coping Strategy of Coleridge.

British and American Language and Literature 118, 1-18. This study focuses upon the personal and political contexts related to what S. T. Coleridge felt anxious in his day. He was once jailed both as a Jacobin and as a spy of pro-France while he was on a tour of Scotland. He got shocked to see poverty and primitive living conditions in Scotland, which were too far from the benefits of civilization. However, he did not explicitly reveal, on his texts, any political conditions and what he had personally gone through. Opium was the material cause of a rough sketch of his poetry, which reflected his mental state. 1816 was the year in which it was widely expected that revolutionary spirit could be spurred among the hungry and discontented. All political contexts, however, were excluded from Coleridge’s 1816 poetry version. His jacobinism and loyalism to England became switched into other sentimental emotions such as anxiety and guilt. For him, poetry was a necessity to reflect his desperate state of being. What occurred in his time frame was rearranged into the space of dreams. He relied upon the visionary to make his poetry a fragment retrieved from his mind. He ultimately chose an allegorical vision to set an ideal model to demonstrate his mind. After he got an inspiration from the visionary, he deployed the instructive narratives of allegorical vision, connected with the visionary.