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Coleridge's 'Christabel,' lines 23-42. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19940322
Author:Franson, J. Karl

Lines 23-42 of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'Christabel' describes Christabel's visit to the forest to pray for her lover and how she there meets Geraldine. Geraldine is lovely and embodies pure sexual energy. However, Coleridge's descriptions of her suggest an embodiment of evil equal to the evil of the Beast in the Book of Revelation. That Coleridge positioned Geraldine approximately 666 feet from the castle further supports this theory.

That strange fragment, Christabel,(1) begins at midnight as Christabel ventures alone into the forest beyond her father's castle to pray "for her lover ...

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