Experiencing the majesty of nature at a young age and seeing the quiet ritual of the lives of people that live among those valleys and hills has on reflection left a lasting impression on me.
As he wrote The Eolian Harp to commemorate coming to his home at Clevedon, Coleridge composed Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement on leaving it.
As the poem was completed after Coleridge's marriage, the themes became similar to the ideas expressed in his Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement.
The peaceful home at the beginning is a parallel to the "Valley of Seclusion" in Coleridge's Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement, which is a quiet place that allows for a pleasant life.
As he completed The Eolian Harp composed to commemorate his return to Clevedon Coleridge composed Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement on his absence from Clevedon and later return to be with his wife at Bristol.
20th-century literary critics often categorise eight of Coleridge's poems (The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, Dejection: An Ode, To William Wordsworth) as a group, usually as his "conversation poems".
"If you have done something that's offensive and that has caused a problem, apologise unreservedly, withdraw that comment, and leave a sensible period of reflection and time-out before re-engaging in a different tone," Allatt advises. .
Certification of sick leave is a reflection of the burden of illness in the community, and of the influence of national, cultural and social characteristics.
As he went along, he put his personal anguish and his ideas about art and its calling on paper, in letters, journals, poems and art criticism -- he had four books published during his lifetime -- leaving a trove of documentation and reflection.
The worry is, there's not a lot of space left for reflection".
