The pains of sleep by samuel taylor coleridge (bianca, juana and sol)
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The poem describes a speaker's painful nights spent alone in bed, unable to sleep due to nightmares. Over the past two nights, the speaker has been awakened screaming from fiendish dreams filled with terrible images representing mankind's capacity for horror. By the third night, after again waking from these dreams, the speaker weeps like a child, overcome with strange sufferings. While the dreams seem fitting punishment for those deeply stained by sin, the speaker asks why these pains must fall upon him.
The pains of sleep by samuel taylor coleridge (bianca, juana and sol)
- 1. The Pains Of Sleep By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Sol Santayana, Bianca Ieraci and Juana Zufriategui.
- 2. Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended knees; But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eye-lids close, With reverential resignation No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me, every where Eternal strength and Wisdom are. Poem
- 3. But yester-night I prayed aloud In anguish and in agony, Up-starting from the fiendish crowd Of shapes and thoughts that tortured me: A lurid light, a trampling throng, Sense of intolerable wrong, And whom I scorned, those only strong! Thirst of revenge, the powerless will Still baffled, and yet burning still! Desire with loathing strangely mixed On wild or hateful objects fixed. Fantastic passions! maddening brawl! And shame and terror over all! Deeds to be hid which were not hid, Which all confused I could not know Whether I suffered, or I did: For all seemed guilt, remorse or woe, My own or others still the same Life-stifling fear, soul-stifling shame.
- 4. So two nights passed: the night's dismay Saddened and stunned the coming day. Sleep, the wide blessing, seemed to me Distemper's worst calamity. The third night, when my own loud scream Had waked me from the fiendish dream, O'ercome with sufferings strange and wild, I wept as I had been a child; And having thus by tears subdued My anguish to a milder mood, Such punishments, I said, were due To natures deepliest stained with sin,— For aye entempesting anew The unfathomable hell within, The horror of their deeds to view, To know and loathe, yet wish and do! Such griefs with such men well agree, But wherefore, wherefore fall on me? To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
- 5. Summary: The poem begins with the speaker stating that he has been laying in his bed for an extended period of time, unable to move. He does pray and turns his soul over in “reverential resignation” to “Love.” This action should clean his restlessness and purify the thoughts he’s been having. As the poem continues, the speaker describes what the last two nights of his life have been like. He has seen a variety of terrible images (nightmares) that wake him screaming from sleep. All of these sights represent the horrors that mankind is capable of, and by default, the speaker himself. By the end of the piece he is asking, almost desperately, why it is that he is the one who has to bear the responsibility of this horrible dreams..
- 6. Title: The title “the pains of sleep” makes reference to the person that the author describes who is suffering and cannot move. Through the title the author symbolise death by using the word sleep, He makes us understand that, death is approaching to this person in bed. We can get to know through it that someone is suffering pain from bad dreams or nightmares of remorseful feelings.
- 7. Literary Devices: - Imagery: “To natures deepliest stained with sin”; the word “stained” makes us use the sense of sight, as we imagine the stained red or dark - Hyperbole: “Had waked me from the fiendish dream”; the author is exaggerating the dream to make flier his anguish - Rhymes: “Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray”, ”ay” rhymes - Simile: “I wept as I had been a child”; it is used “as” to compare to thing that are not the same, the suffer with a child.
- 8. - Repetition: “Deeds to be hid which were not hid”; he repetís the word “hid” to emphasize that things are confusing. - Metaphor: “My anguish to a milder mood”; he is changing an idea for other one, he expresses that he is very sad and changes to sow thing milder - Personification: “And having thus by tears subdued”; the poet is giving the tears and addictive that is generally given to a person. - Style: “In anguish and in agony”; the author choose this words to express emotion
- 9. Tone: The tone is sad. As the poem starts, it gives a saddening feeling as the author describes the painful night he spends alone lying in bed. Moreover, It feels tense as he also describes his feelings, his passion and anguish of loneliness.
- 10. Themes: ● Dreams ● Death ● Love ● Resignation ● Loneliness ● Repentance
- 11. Important quotes: ● “To be loved is all I need”: You can notice is suffering because he doesn’t have one to stay by his side, he is alone, and he is begging for love, he doesn’t want the feeling of loneliness, he just needs someone, he needs love. ● “To know and loathe, yet wish and do!”: He is being made to “know and loathe” the acts of humankind and there is nothing he can do about it. The narrator is only able to wish that he could help in some way. ● “Desire with loathing strangely mixed”: This quote caught our attention as he is able to feel “desire” and “loathing” at the same time. Like he is not in control of his own body or mind. He feels combinations of every possible negative emotion.
- 12. Our Opinion: In our opinion, this poem is really good as it represents the daily feelings of a man during the nights. We liked this poem because it shows a very common reality; in the poem, it makes sense that the man would have difficulty sleeping at times when he was dealing with such weighty personal problems. And this is something that happens to us. When we go to sleep after a fight or after hearing bad news, it is difficult for us to sleep and there is when we start to think about sad things and we still get worse. On the other hand, this poem seems to present a past love which the man could not overcome, and continues suffering because of that person. We believe this is very tender but sad at the same time because he can't continue his life as he is thinking all the time.
- 13. Connection with any other poem, story, song you have read/listened to: We could find a connection with the song “”Endless Nightmare” by Jake Hill as the song talks about the pain and anguish that a person feels from the moment he get up until he get to sleep. it transmits it as a continuous feeling that persecutes him and that does not end. This is why we can connect it with the poem since the author of the poem describes the feeling of anguish and despair of a person whose nightmares do not allow him to sleep at night because they torment him. In the song something similar happens because the person the author describes lives in a constant nightmare that torments him, the same thing happens in the poem, his nightmares chase him, they don't let him sleep so actually he is living an endless nightmare.
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