ChatGPT interprets two short texts by Coleridge

I present ChatGPT with two short texts by Coleridge: 1) a fragment from the collection, Anima Poetae, edited by his grandson, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, and 2) the preferace that Coleridge himself prepared for “Kubla Khan.” I prompt ChatGPT to interpret each text separately and then to compare the two. I’ve done the same thing in my article, “Kubla Khan” and the Embodied Mind (pp. 52-55).

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Consider this fragment from Coleridge’s Anima Poetae:

“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to ...