Water ballad(poems with explaination)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">"Water Ballad" by Coleridge</span></h2> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;">About Author ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge)</span></h3> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjId4nqncmAsX-5N1-VWlIuAMf31bkYzngRRfYTin3NoXt_BTaJWOl27h-ipV_x6pwjWaD5hV0uQhZQH2ZupxMt3UPbiXJmtjqvjmqYtBfb9wtKbdKOSaUn4-IvHnp03mtRG_Aks-7SU74/s1600/tail.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" loading="lazy" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjId4nqncmAsX-5N1-VWlIuAMf31bkYzngRRfYTin3NoXt_BTaJWOl27h-ipV_x6pwjWaD5hV0uQhZQH2ZupxMt3UPbiXJmtjqvjmqYtBfb9wtKbdKOSaUn4-IvHnp03mtRG_Aks-7SU74/s1600-rw/tail.png" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">S.T.Coleridge</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772.He had thirteen sisters and brothers .His father had two wives.His father died in 1781 when he was eight years old.He admitted in charity school after death of his father.He studied and wrote poetry in school.He liked his father but his terms were not good with his mother. He lived in school and occasionally went home.In 1791 he joined Jesus college ,Cambridge.In 1792 he won the browne gold medal for his poem.He left college in 1793.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> He was failed in love and was much depressed. In 1795 he married but it became also failed. In same year he met the great poet William words worth. In 1798 these two poets published a joint volume of poetry.His most popular poem are "This Lime tree","Frost at Midnight" and Nightingale In 1799, Coleridge and Wordsworth stayed at Thomas Hutchinson's farm.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Coleridge has a most important part in English poetry.He gave many lectures on Shakespeare and Milton and on principals of poetry.His major work was " Biographia Literaria" which was punlished in 1817. He died in London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart failure</span></div> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;">"Water Ballad"(Poem)</span></h3> <span style="font-size: large;">Come hither, gently rowing, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Come, bear me quickly o'er ,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">This stream so brightly flowing, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">To yonder woodland shore, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">vain were my endeavour,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">To pay thee, courteous guide, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Row on, row on, for ever ,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I'd have thee by my side. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Good boatman, prithee haste thee,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> I seek my father-land, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Say, when I there have placed thee,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> Dare I demand thy hand,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">A maiden's head can never, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">So hard a point decide,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> Row on, row on, for eve, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I'd have thee by my side.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The happy bridal over, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The wanderer ceased to roam, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">For, seated by her lover, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The boat became her home, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">And they still sang together,</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">As steering o'er the tide, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Row on through wind and weathe, </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">For ever by my side. </span><br /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Water Ballad"(Explaination of poem)</span> </span></h3> <span style="font-size: large;">"Water Ballad" by Coleridge is both a simple love poem and an allegory of human life. A young girl wishes to go across the stream to her father’s land. She requests a boatman to row her over to the other side. During their short journey, while they are rowing over the brightly flowing stream, they fall in love. The boatman asks her if he could demand her hand when he has taken her to her father’s land. She replies that it is a difficult question. However, she says that she likes his company. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">They get married and the boat becomes their home. The maiden’s restless wandering is over. She has found her <a href="http://educational-wealth.blogspot.com/2014/01/bad-effects-of-sleep-debt.html" target="_blank"><b>dream</b></a>. Sitting side by side in their boat and singing together they row through rough and calm weather. Seen as an allegory, the poem takes on deeper meanings. The boat is the symbol of human life, the maiden and the boatman stand for mankind. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Men and women need love to make I'fe happy and successful1. The stream becomes time. She asked the boat man to carry her to the other side.The boatman agreed but refused to take the fare. He proposed to her and was accepted. They got married and the boat became their home.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"> In these lines the poet says that after their marriage they continued rowing over the tide of the river. They always used to sing a song which meant that they should go on rowing in fair or foul weather while remaining by the side of each other. Life brought those two strangers together. 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Water ballad(poems with explaination)

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