ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An eolian harp is a type of stringed instrument that produces music whenever wind blows across it and causes its strings to vibrate. Many Romantic poets used the image of the wind and the harp as a metaphor for poetic inspiration and imagination.

Detailed explanation-2: -The eolian harp itself acts to symbolize the bridge between nature and humanity, as it requires the role of nature to play music. The harp is placed in an open window to await the wind, music being played when the breeze strums its Page 4 Echternach 3 chords.

Detailed explanation-3: -In this poem, the poet discusses his engagement and his future marriage. However, the central theme of the poem is not love. The poem focuses on the image of the “Eolian Harp”, and how it represents both the order and the wildness found in nature. During his lifetime, Coleridge altered and revised the poem many times.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is one of the early conversation poems and discusses Coleridge’s anticipation of a marriage with Sara Fricker along with the pleasure of conjugal love. However, The Eolian Harp is not a love poem and instead focuses on man’s relationship with nature.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aeolian harp, (from Aeolus, the Greek god of the winds), a type of box zither on which sounds are produced by the movement of wind over its strings. It is made of a wooden sound box about 1 metre by 13 cm by 8 cm (3 feet by 5 inches by 3 inches) that is loosely strung with 10 or 12 gut strings.