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No less than Wordsworth, Coleridge, as is shown in his notebooks, had a deep interest in the natural phenomena, the scenery, and the eco-community as a dweller in the Lake District. Moreover, his major poems, including the conversation poems and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” successfully embody his ecological experiences and perceptions of the natural world as an interdependent eco-community characterized by variety, complexity, and symbiosis. While “The Eolian Harp” presents his concept of “one Life” as a part of his metaphysical speculation in a transcendental vein, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” and “The Nightingale” enact in a more persuasive way the drama of the mind of the speaker that comes to discover the intrinsic value and the mysterious complexity of the natural world through his real experiences in it. Unlike them, “The Ancient Mariner,” in a dense narrative structure, intriguingly dramatizes such ecological themes as the interrelation and interdependence of all things, the sense of dwelling on the earth, and the right of animals. (PaiChai University)