When a journey is begun its consequences are uncertain. This is particularly true of imaginary journeys. The following texts, which embody this very idea, `This Lime-tree Bower My Prison' and `Frost at Midnight' by Samuel Coleridge, `The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost and "The Wizard of Oz" directed by Victor Fleming, will be discussed in this essay.

`This Lime-tree Bower My Prison' is a poem that values the beauty of nature and imagination. While being left behind by his friends to his grave disliking, Coleridge undergoes a spiritual and uplifting experience, one that he was not expecting. Through interpreting his tone, his use of language, and his ideas, the reader experiences, with him, an imaginative journey.

The poem begins with a bitter and sour tone because Coleridge is disheartened and regrets not being able to join and experience a nature walk with his friends. This tone and...