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These final lines in the poem
indicate the immortality of the
seeker, who found the "honeydew" and
"milk of paradise". These offer some
comparison to other Paradise mythos,
such as the Judeo-Christian Garden of
Eden (Genesis 1-3), wherein was the
Fruit of Knowledge, offering the
immortal knowledge of good and evil,
but at the price of expulsion from
Paradise and from the Lord's
presence, and the Orthodox Buddhist
Nirvana, where all souls are forever
linked to the "central consciousness"
in eternal bliss. Coleridge's vision
here is an example of such a paradise
as these, but its primary deviation
is that it is earthly. This linkage
between the natural and the
supernatural was a primary theme in
Coleridge's work, which parallels the
paranormal themes of the contemporary
German Sturm and Drang ("Storm and
thunder") literary movement, of which
the famous poet and philosopher
Goethe was an adherent.
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