Coleridge the Revolutionary

I was unaware Coleridge had such an intimate relationship with political literature as poetry and was surprised to find poetry was, for lack of better terminology, a side-project. Being a scholar, it is not astounding to find parallels in his writings to Wollstonecraft and Godwin, of whose works Coleridge must have been familiar. He harkens to the radical ideals of Godwin and his dream of a Utopian society devoid of social classes and characterized by equality of wealth. "Meanwhile, at home, we have been drinking with a riotous-thirst pollutions from the brimming cup of wealth," complains Coleridge in Fears in Solitude. He writes in a tone and rhetorical form that immediately I connect with Wollstonecraft. The way he begins in an innocent and friendly manor describing the serene countryside and eases the reader into a commentary on political events is akin to the organization of Mary's work. She pulled in the reader by giving an account of the day she had experiences; then she strategically shuffles in the real message she is trying to get across. I am absolutely enthralled with the complexities of his form. Not only does he hide his message in a frame of textbook romanticism concerning nature, he also hides his true criticism of England's involvement with the slave trade behind addressing the tumultuous relationship between the revolutionaries of France and England most recently involving talks of invasion.