I am working on an illustrated reading of this poem, but in the meantime here is a plain reading. You can also find my analysis of the poem's famous preface, in which Coleridge tells us that the poem was written under the influence of an "anodyne" (elsewhere specified as opium, prescribed for medicinal purposes) and left unfinished after he was interrupted by "a person from Porlock" (a nearby vill...
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