A sinful and most miserable man

Here Coleridge displays more of the same meladrama as he did in This Lime Tree Bower My Prison regarding his friends going on a walk and never seeing them again. Though Coleridge addresses his fiancee Sara in the beginning of the poem, The Eolian Harp seems to be more of a conversation with Coleridge himself. He is divided between two selves. The poem begins with a confident philosophical Coleridge who sees the whole world and how every aspect is interwined. But in the last stanza, Coleridge starts to question himself and his philosohpy and realizes that all he really knows is what he sees--"Peace, and this cot, and thee, heart-honured maid!"