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Coleridge’s Conversation Poems: Romantic Likening and the Vision of One Life Hongki Kim (Kwangwoon University) In his conversation poems, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is looking at how a part can be related to a whole. In his two conversation poems, The Eolian Harp and This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison in particular Coleridge explores the mysteries of the One Life postulating visible things in nature are a symbolic text in which he can read figures of Romantic likening. Nature in Coleridge's episteme does not only provides its physical beauty but its encounter with the self transposes him to a cosmic communion with the mysterious order of the One Life. Subject and object participate together in the Coleridgean Romantic organicism and his poems are a record of the soul's adventures among Romantic metaphors.