Poetry: Gothic Poems

Are any of these poems Gothic? IF so, how?



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One criticism of "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" was that the moral wasn't clear enough. Coleridge and Wordsworth responded by saying that the fault in the poem was that there was too much of a moral in it--too much of a story or "tale" in it, or as Wordsworth chides his readers in "Simon Lee" (also in Lyrical Ballads),





My gentle Reader, I perceive,

How patiently you've waited,

And now I fear that you expect

Some tale will be related.



O Reader! had you in your mind

Such stores as silent thought can bring,

O gentle Reader! you would find

A tale in every thing.

What more I have to say is short,

And you must kindly take it:

It is no tale; but, should you think,

Perhaps a tale you'll make it.





That is, I think, that Coleridge and Wordsworth didn't leave any room for the reader to make use of their imagination while reading "Rime...".