How Does Coleridge in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan' Show the Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature and the Poetic Coleridge expresses many thoughtful and rather intense ideas in his poetry, through using either peculiar or common images of all forms of nature ie human, environmental or supernatural. His poetic expression is unique in its use of extraordinary imagery and transition of mood yet he what he creates usually conforms to numerous literary techniques. The recurring theme in many of his poems is that of man's harm