<Dd> Undreamt of by the sensual and the proud--</Dd> <Dd> Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud--</Dd> <Dd> We in ourselves rejoice! </Dd> <P> The poem was a reply to William Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence". It is also connected to Wordsworth's Immortality Ode in theme and structure . The poem expresses feelings of dejection and the inability to write poetry or to enjoy nature . Wordsworth is introduced into the poem as a counter to Coleridge, because Wordsworth is able to turn such a mood into a benefit and is able to be comforted . However, Coleridge cannot find anything positive in his problems, and he expresses how he feels paralyzed by his emotions . This source of their paralysis was Coleridge's feelings for Hutchinson and problems dealing with his marriage . However, Coleridge couldn't have been completely in dejection or he would have been unable to create the poem . </P>

Dejection an ode as a poem of despair