In 'Dejection: An Ode', Coleridge laments that nature's beauty is dependent on:
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Correct answer: The observer's inner state of joy
In this poem, Coleridge famously writes, 'we receive but what we give, / And in our life alone does Nature live.' He realizes that if his inner soul is 'dejected' and joyless, the external world appears cold and 'blank'.
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