Drugs for Poetry

            According to this video, the Romantics were a movement of writers that embarked in a voyage of discovering the meaning of a life without God; they were quite a radical movement, in my eyes, because of the way through which they first manifested their search for this meaning. By spreading a pamphlet throughout all of the parishes titled “The Importance of Atheism, I think that they were seeking not only to make a statement but also to create a commotion, and this is exactly what thy did.

            We kickoff with a poet who finds a less than conventional way to create his poetry in a faster way. Samuel Taylor Coleridge stumbled upon the drug Opium when sick but found that when he took it he would traveled to a “different level of consciousness an create what same to be one od the best lines ever written in the English language,

            This piece of information, the whole “best lines ever written in the English language” only reinforces the widely known cliché that artists, writers and philosophers are able to do what they do because they drug themselves and go to other realms of consciousness.