There is not wind enough in the air

Coleridge's manipulation of the wind in Christabel is similar to that in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In both instances the supernatural and natural seem to blend together and the audience is easily confused as to what is really happening. As discussed in class, the stoppage of the wind in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner did not prevent the ship from progressing along, yet the ship seems to travel in a circular pattern and the poem begins at the equator once more. In Christabel, Coleridge writes that "there is not wind enough to twirl the one red leaf?", and here the dead movement occurs just prior to the introduction of the questionably supernatural Geraldine. In both instances of Coleridge?s poetry, nature and natural events, particularly the wind, seem to pause or become altered in the presence of supernatural occurrences, whether it is Geraldine or the killing of the Albatross. The line between what is real and the mystical is purposefully blurred, as he talks about in Biographia Literaria XIV - Coleridge on Wordsworth.