The suicide’s argument
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “The Suicide’s Argument” was written in 1811 and published in 1828.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in Ottery St Mary, Devon, England, and he died on 25 July 1834 in Highgate, Middlesex, England, at the age of 61.Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. His major works include the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking cultures.
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Ere the birth of my life, if I wished it or no No question was asked me — it could not be so! If the life was the question, a thing sent to try And to live on be Yes; what can No be? to die.
Is’t returned, as ’twas sent? Is’t no worse for the wear? Think first, what you are! Call to mind what you were! I gave you innocence, I gave you hope, Gave health, and genius, and an ample scope. Return you me guilt, lethargy, despair? Make out the invent’ry; inspect, compare! Then die — if die you dare!