Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES FROM A NOTEBOOK - FEBRUARY 1807 (2), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some vast tropic tree, itself a wood Last Line: Broods o'er the rude idolatry beneath. -- Variant Title(s): The Tropic Tree Subject(s): Trees | ||||||||
As some vast tropic Tree, itself a Wood, That crests its Head with clouds, beneath the flood Feeds its deep roots, and with the bulging flank Of its wide Base controlls the fronting bank, (By the slant current's pressure scoop'd away The fronting Bank becomes a foam-piled Bay) High in its Fork the uncouth Idol knits His channel'd Brows: low murmurs stir by fits: And dark below the horrid Faquir sits; An Horror from its broad Head's branching Wreath Broods o'er the rude Idolatry beneath. -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES by ROBERT HASS THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MIDNIGHT EDEN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN REFLECTION OF THE WOOD by LEONIE ADAMS THE LIFE OF TREES by DORIANNE LAUX A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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