The themes of dejection in the writing of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

Everyone encounters dejection in his or her life, and various people have various different ways to combat the feelings of gloom, depression, and hopelessness. Some choose to pursue through music, art, poetry, or television, while others choose food, talking about it, or perhaps just holding all of the feelings inside. The fact of the matter is that dejection is a mysterious thing and everyone has varying perspectives of it. In Romanticism, dejection is a topic …

…had a great deal to write about on the subject of dejection and although they felt differently about the subject, their combined influence has shaped a lot of what people think of the topic today. While some think as Wordsworth thought, that there ways to counter depression, while others think that it can not be fought, and believe what Coleridge believed, that it is a reoccurring stage of life that will come and go naturally.