A guide to reading the totally screwed up and unreadable poem "Christabel" by Coleridge.

HOW TO READ THE POEM CHRISTABEL by Coleridge

How the poem withdraws possibility of straight-forward tuition

1. terminate or fragment

2. Narration

3. Reflexivity: all characters hit the books Geraldine

A POEM active THE UNCONSCIOUS

1. Freudian Slips

2. Proposal - the poem slips, moves into dangerous territory and rec everyplaces in Part 2.

STRUCTURE

1. Patterns of opposition

2. Mediating terms and taboo

3. From Parts to wholes: incomplete - to - complete

MaleFemale

1L X

2X L

L = Leoline

X = Unknown

What does Christabel see when Leoline undresses? It is exchangeable the speaker of the poem has had a spell cast over them too.

REFLEXIVITY: all the characters in the poem bugger off trouble reading Geraldine. Christabel naïve reading not correct, but cant read Geraldine. mental term - repression (hysteric), something she doesnt know about her but her unconscious knows.

GERALDINE AND CHRISTABEL push through AS A SNAKE AND A DOVE.

The dream of necessity to be interpreted and misinterpreted. Dream is about what happened in Christabels tail that evening. All read pathologically; as repressed, repeated and concealed.

PART TWO

Not universe able to say what one would like to say. The speaker isnt specifically accounting for Leolines behaviour. Christabel is a poem about the unrepresentable (unconscious). Can you read the unconscious? He thinks so.

Conclusion of Part Two is a paraphraxis or Freudian slip.

What they meant to say is contradicted by what they say. Product of a gaga intention. In order to speculate on the relationship among the story and the life of the poem.

Basic Structure: bits are related to other bits.

Christabel: Christ - Satan - Snake } Geraldine

Abel - Cain - Mark }

Jane Nelsons article looks at this in more detail in Studies and Romanticism, Vol. 19, no. 3

Oppositions:Light/DarkRising/Falling

PART ONE

Christabel moves from...

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