Christabel” is a Complete Poem and Ends with Christable’s defeat Abstract
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S.T. Coleridge, Christable, Christable’s defeatAbstract
S. T. Coleridge admitted that he tried repeatedly to finish “Christabel” but his attempts werein vain. This paper is an attempt to prove that Coleridge could not finish “Christabel”because, first, it is a complete poem and a symbolic tale that alludes to the defeat of thepoet in him, and second, Coleridge apparently planned to end the seemingly unfinished “Christabel,” happily by making Christabel victorious, which contradicts with what thecharacters in the poem represent. However, studying the images used in “Christabel,” theirconnotations and what they represent and allude to -- such as Bracy’s dream with its mainimage of a dove imprisoned by a snake coiled around it -- show that the poem is not, as itseems to be, unfinished. To the contrary, despite Coleridge’s firm belief that “Christabel” isa fragment, it is complete and ends logically with Christabel’s isolation, desolation and defeat.
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