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WHAT IS LIFE? by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Poet Analysis

First Line: RESEMBLES LIFE WHAT ONCE WAS DEEMED OF LIGHT
Last Line: A WAR-EMBRACE OF WRESTLING LIFE AND DEATH?
Subject(s): LIFE;

RESEMBLES life what once was deemed of light,
Too ample in itself for human sight?
An absolute self -- an element ungrounded --
All that we see, all colours of all shade
By encroach of darkness made? --
Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling life and death?



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