that poetry is in fact "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" as said by William Woodsworth in his preface to "Lyrache Ballards".
This notion supports Coleridge's decision to use "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flial" to describe the dome and its environment. The similes capture Coleridge's constant struggle to express his creative imagination and visions.
Coleridge's drug induced sleep and Samuel Purchas's text enabled Coleridge to embark upon the imaginative journe
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