Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a noted poet, philosopher and critic, born in the late eighteenth century in England. The youngest of fourteen siblings, he was sent to live and study at Christ’s Hospital after his father’s death. Although his brothers took care of him, he was very lonely most of the time. Unable to visit home during his holidays, he made many friends, not all of whom had good influence on him. It is not known why or when, but sometime during his college years, he became used to opium, an addiction that he could never shrug off. Starting to write poems from the age of fifteen, he wrote his most memorable poems in his twenties. In his twenties, he also cofounded the ‘Romantic Movement’ with his friend William Wordsworth, writing poems in everyday language. In his later years, as his dependency on the drug increased, his literary capability began to decrease. Alienated from his family, he spent the last eighteen years of his life with his physician, who was able to help him control his addiction, thus restoring his literal competence and social acceptance. By the time of his death at the age of sixty-one, he was considered a legend of his time.