Alas, Wordsworth and Coleridge
My IOP in English is up for tomorrow, and as usual I haven't prepared at all (mostly because so much other work has piled up.) Instead of doing a presentation on The Great Gatsby and Waiting for Godot, the two books that are available for the IOP in our course, I decided to do something on some poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge. Namely an extract from The Prelude and one from Ancient Mariner. (I got this idea from some themes that were explained to me by the BE resident usability guru, but he is sadly unreachable at the moment.)
What I am attempting to demonstrate is the use of religious experiences and imagination in the two poems, and that Coleridge was the more religious type, while Wordsworth is more the nature touchy-feely type. Any ideas are welcome, preferably with quotations. :-)