Coleridge Conversing: Between Soliloquy and Invocation.

This article analyzes the conversation poem of English romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge through soliloquy and invocation. It is claimed that voice and silence are two salients of his conversation poem particularly in "The Eolian Harp." His own conversational idiom is considered as a form of convocation, a calling out to other voices until the poet is able to hear his own voice calling. Views from other poets concerning his way of writing in his conversational poem are also discussed.