ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge is characterized by the supernatural. The word comes from the Latin super meaning above and naturo meaning nature. The etymology of the word, however, helps us in no way to understand the connotation of the word in literature.

Detailed explanation-2: -Samuel taylor coleridge’s the ancient mariner and kubla khan are the major poems regarded as. the greatest compositions in the field of supernaturalism. As a poet of supernaturalism, coleridge strictly eschewed crudeness from his writings.

Detailed explanation-3: -Supernatural elements can be considered as one of the important characteristics of the Romantic Age. The Romantic poets resorted to the beauty of the Supernatural. They believed that something existed beyond the physical world, the Spiritual world.

Detailed explanation-4: -Supernaturalism. Most of the romantic poets used supernatural elements in their poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is the leading romantic poet in this regard, and “Kubla Khan” is full of supernatural elements.

Detailed explanation-5: -In his poems, Coleridge conveys supernaturalism in a most natural and believable manner, allowing the reader for a willing suspension of disbelief. It is a dream-like quality of his supernatural that makes suspension of disbelief easily possible. In addition to these devices, Coleridge also employs occult forces.