what attitude to nature does coleridge express in the ode to dejection

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In "Dejection: An Ode," Samuel Taylor Coleridge expresses a despondent attitude towards nature. He is unable to find joy in the beauty of natural objects, and no beautiful object of nature can charm him. Coleridges sense discernments are striking and to some degree pleasing, but his inward state is weak, obscured, and despondent. He sees but cannot feel. Coleridge contradicts his own previous view of nature expressed in "The Eolian Harp" and "Frost at Midnight," where he expressed a belief in pantheism. In "Dejection: An Ode," Coleridge emphasizes the division between his own mind and the beauty of the natural world.