Animal Farm , written by George Orwell , is a political fable that tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their cruel human master, hoping to create a society where all animals are equal, free, and happy. Inspired by the dream of the wise old pig Old Major, the animals overthrow the farmer Mr. Jones and take control of the farm, renaming it Animal Farm. At first, the animals work together to build an egalitarian community based on the principles of Animalism, summarized in the Seven Commandments painted on the barn wall. However, over time, the pigs—led by the cunning and power-hungry Napoleon—begin to seize control. They gradually assume privileges, manipulate language and truth, and use fear and propaganda to maintain power. Eventually, they become indistinguishable from the humans they once overthrew. This allegory clearly reflects the events of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the rise of Stalinism. The animals represent different social and political groups...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Devon in 1772.
When he was eight his father died and he was ent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school in London.
In 1791 he attended Cambridge University and left it in 1794 without graduating.
In 1797 Coleridge settled at Somerset where William Wordsworth lived.
This was the beginning of the intellectual collaboration between the two poets that produced Lyrical Ballads, a collection which included Coleridge's most famous poem: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The years 1799-1810, when the two poets settled in the Lake District, were full of frustration for Coleridge to the point that he took large quantities of opium and quarelled with Wordsworth.
He died in 1834.
Coleridge's poems, referred to as the "demonic poems", share the presence of the supernatural in various forms. They are all dreams of haunted souls, and behind their exotic richness and half-magical lands, we sense that mysterious forces are at play, which conduct the choices of men.
These poems maybe seen as nightmares of passivity: the characters don't act but is acted upon.
Coleridge is the perfect example of a complex Romantic personality: an unfulfilled genius who never fully realized his potential in his poems.
Against the Empiricism, he held views of the creative mind as capable of recreating the world of the senses.
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