“This lime pergola is my prison! I have lost/ Beauties and feelings,” (441). Coleridge initially dwells on his absence from the excursion, but his imagination allows him to follow his friends on their excursion even though he is not part of the adventure. Towards the end of the poem, Coleridge noted that nature is everywhere, meaning that beauty is not always as extravagant as it might seem. Despite the injury, Coleridge's attention is drawn to his cottage, in which he is staying, after noticing that the beauty of nature can be accessed everywhere. Coleridge's writing allows for contradictions within his work because it allows his audience to better understand his accident and what he learned from missing the excursion with his friends. It shows that one day in which they lack the vision of nature does not add up to several days in which ordinary people take nature and its offerings for granted. The opposite for this poem is imagination and reality because the things one can imagine can end up being reality if people have a true appreciation for nature like the romantics did. Opposites within poems do not work differently for each writer because the Romantic period was a time when people wrote lyrics and often added oppositions to their works to help ordinary people better understand their works.