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A poem titled for this concept describes “Blue isles and snowy mountains” wearing the “purple noon’s transparent might.” The speaker of another poem titled for this concept aspires to behold more than the “inanimate cold world allowed / To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd.” This concept titles a Percy Shelley poem written “near Naples.” (10[1])The speaker of a different poem (10[1])titled for this concept commands, “Hence, viper thoughts that coil around (10[1])my mind, (10[1])/ Reality’s dark dream!” (-5[2])The epigraph of that poem titled for this concept quotes the lines “Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon” from the ballad (-5[1])“Sir Patrick Spens.” (-5[1])That response (10[1])to Wordsworth’s (-5[1])Immortality (10[1])Ode (10[1])is titled (10[1])for this (-5[1])concept (10[1])and includes the line “My genial spirits fail.” (10[1])For 10 points, name this concept that titles a gloomy ode by (-5[1])Samuel (-5[1])Taylor (10[1])Coleridge. (0[1])■END■ (10[3]0[7])

ANSWER: dejection [accept “Dejection: An Ode”; accept “Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples”]
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