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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was responsible for attempting to present the supernatural as real where as his friend William Wordsworth would try to render ordinary reality as remarkable, strange. This Lime-Tree Bower is said to be Coleridge’s most agreeable and engaging poem Coleridge ever wrote. The best poem I have read, it seems to share a bit of optimism and sincere generosity of impulse. The openness and selfless friendship need to be stressed, one must …

…motion, it remains claustrophobic -- a dark enclosure cut off from the larger world. This goes back to the poem’s title. Can a bower of lime-trees be a prison even as he begins to show how this can be; he proves that it cannot be, since the imagination cannot be imprisoned. The poet goes on to acknowledge, at the end of the poem, that the prison is no prison and the loss no loss.