ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Dejection: An Ode” is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1802. The poem in its original form was written to Sara Hutchinson, a woman who was not his wife, and discusses his feelings of love for her.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to the speaker, “we receive but what we give”: the soul itself must provide the light by which we may hope to see nature’s true beauty-a beauty not given to the common crowd of human beings (“the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd”).

Detailed explanation-3: -"Dejection: An Ode” is English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s exploration of despair, joy, and imagination. Lost in a terrible “dejection"-a kind of numb, colorless hopelessness-the poem’s speaker reflects that, when a person is in such a mood, the whole world looks blank and empty.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stanza One Unroused by winds, that ply a busier trade. Coleridge writes on, describing a gathering storm he wishes would erupt, so that it might distract him from the pain in his heart, that the storm ‘might startle this dull pain, and make it move and live. ‘