Coleridge's Poems

Explain the metaphor of the seven sleepers' den in the poem.

This line are taken from Donne's "The Good Morrow"

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The ‘seven sleepers den’ is a biblical allusion to a Catholic legend where a group of sleepers awoke to find themselves "thunderstruck" at their new reality.

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