After an imaginative journey the mind frame of the person who undertook the journey has altered due to a new understanding, therefore they are unable to return to the same mind frame that they previously had. Similarly, the imaginative journey that Samuel Taylor Coleridge embarks on during his conversational poems, "Frost at Midnight" and "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison" transforms his mind. With the use of thematic juxtaposition, melodrama, language techniques, the tone and …showed first 75 words of 643 total…

…showed last 75 words of 643 total…different perspective of his initial hopes for his child. In both Coleridge's poems a transformation takes place within the persona after he embarks on an imaginative journey. After an imaginative journey the mind frame of the person who undertook the journey has altered due to a new understanding, therefore they are unable to return to the same mind frame that they previously had. Therefore, "Whatever the context imaginative journeys always transform us in some ways"