What is Life?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772 to 1834
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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All that we see, all colors of all shade
An absolute self—an element ungrounded—
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling life and death?
Is very life by consciousness unbounded?
Resembles life what once was deem'd of light,
Too ample in itself for human sight?
By encroach of darkness made?—