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In Samuel Coleridge's conversation poems “The Eolian Harp” and “Frost at Midnight”, he reveals and communicates his situation in terms of religious feelings, where both of his poems can speak to the audience in a quiet and personal voice revealing the truth in terms of everyday experiences. Both poems use certain devices such as internal conflict, external conflict, symbolism, structure and the theme of association between God and nature to communicate the poet's situation in terms of religious feelings. Both poems highlight the importance of the natural world by presenting images and descriptions of the natural environment and asserting that nature itself is closely linked to God and religion. Although Samuel Coleridge uses different plots, devices, and methods in both "The Eolian Harp" and "Frost at Midnight", he manages to represent his religious views, the importance of nature, and spiritual, religious, and mystical themes in both poems. .In “The Aeolian Harp,” Coleridge begins with a vivid description of a tranquil scene in nature, and delves into the workings of his mind. The first stanza of "The Aeolian Harp" is filled with natural imagery in which both Sara, his wife, and the poet sit affectionately outside their cottage looking at the evening stars, smelling pleasant scents, and listening to the distant murmur of the sea. The poet then reflects on both an intellectual and emotional problem that he has been thinking about lately, namely the conflict between his speculative philosophy producing about God and nature, and the opposing institution of religious dogma; thus, creating an internal conflict between the poet's mystical thoughts and the sustained rationalist Christian thoughts... in the center of the paper ...and emphasizes the connection and association of all things, both internal and external. Similarly, in “Frost at Midnight,” Coleridge uses the same circular structure to reflect the structure of existence itself, describing the poet's situation in a religious manner. Finally, in “Frost at Midnight” Coleridge depicts the theme of the association between nature and religion by expressing that God is found in every aspect of the natural world, to further represent and communicate to the audience the poet's situation in terms of religious feelings. . Using different and varied methods in both “The Aeolian Harp” and “Frost at Midnight”, Samuel Coleridge is able to present and communicate the poet's situation in terms of religious feelings in which he includes himself in natural environments to describe his relationship with the other human beings who make up the world.