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| quote: | Originally posted by daffodil
yep, he smoke opium and fell asleep and had beautiful dreams of the poem where the words just rose up in front of him. apparently there was far more to the poem, but when he awoke and wrote it down, he was interrupted by a visitor and couldn't remember the rest of the poem after the visitor left. he laments this is the last verse that starts, "a damsel with a dulcimer..."
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good morning.. im actually going to go back to sleep now.
yes i do remember that story about Coleridge, i sometimes get my 19th century opiate-addicted and absinthe-addicted poets mixed up here and there.
Who wrote the poem Ozymandias? I like that one a lot too.
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