...Nightingale' Coleridge explicitly contrasts the projective self-absorption of the loveless poet who 'poor wretch! filled all things with himself, / And made all gentle sounds tell hack the tale / Of his own sorrow', with the right way of carrying on: 'to the influxes / Of shapes...

...some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love, (And so, poor wretch!...himself, And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale 20 Of his own sorrow) he, and such as he, First named these notes a melancholy strain. And many a poet...

...some night-wandering man whose heart was pierced With the remembrance of a grievous wrong, Or slow distemper, or neglected love (And so, poor wretch! filled all things with himself, And made all gende sounds tell back the tale 20 Of his own sorrow), he, and such as he, First named these notes...

...is a '"most melancholy" Bird', by visualizing the 'poor Wretch' who, in his own melancholy, 'fill'd all things with himself/ And made all gentle sounds tell back the tale/ Of his own sorrow' (19-21)." In 'This LimeTree Bower', Coleridge dramatizes the movement from just such a position to...