Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I feel that Coleridge continues the theme of nature similar to other romantic poets such as William and Dorothy Wordsworth in "Work Without Hope". Although this particular poem is one of the shortest in this section, he still manages to go in depth as to describe the things in nature as well as their movement. He mentions the bees stirring, birds on a wing, and even slugs. Slugs are creatures that we do not even think about and we definitely do not find them beautiful. Coleridge takes you to a different season--Winter. In the winter, everything is not green as in the Spring. Things in nature change because of the cold weather. "And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing" (p. 349). I can somewhat relate to this line of the poem because he is the sole unbusy thing and time waits for no man. No matter how stagnant and still we may become, everything in nature will keep moving and cycling. Along with references to nature he brings the message of the importance of hope in accomplishing a task. If you are without hope, your tasks may not be completed or may not be completed with the quality that you wish them to be. In the last line he tells us, "And Hope without an object cannot live." I agree that this is so very true. When we hope we must have something to hope for.