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A03 context

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Wrote when he was 51
Depth of depression
Opium addict
Estranged from his family

By this time he was living at the Grove on the outskirts of London, under the supervision of the physician Gillman

Unclear whether his growing use of opium and the brandy that it was dissolved in, was a symptom or a cause of his growing depression

Tillman was partially successful in controlling poets addiction

Coleridge stayed till his death

2
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References to youth

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‘Friendship is a sheltering tree’
‘Hope clung feeding like a bee’
‘Joys that came down shower like’

3
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References to age

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‘That only serves to make us grieve’

‘This body that does me grievious wrong’

4
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How does this pie reflect romantic beliefs

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Imagination from youth - his despair is due to his loss of it due to age

5
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A05 interpretation

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Only as old/young as you feel or in this case ‘think’
If you continue to have hope then you can remain optimistic and young in spirit in old age

You may ‘think’ you are still young but your body will betray you. Old age makes us ‘grieve’ for the youth we have lost

6
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Theme emphasis on freedom of individual

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‘When youth and I lived in’t together/ Flowers and lovely; love is flower-like

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Theme importance of childhood

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‘Hope clung feeding, like a bee’

‘Friendship is a sheltering tree’