Abstract
Just as it is possible to trace back the manifest or surface elements in a dream, its images and events, to the previous experience of the dreamer, it is possible to show how the words and content of a poem are derivable from the poet's life. John Livingston Lowes has demonstrated this possibility in his justly famous study examining the sources of two poems by Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. Although it takes as its starting-point the common source of dreams and poetry in individual experience, this article has the purpose of indicating how the nature of poetry puts limits on its interpretation by the methods of psycho-analysis.
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