A Guide to Reading the Totally Screwed up and Unreadable Poem "Christabel" by Coleridge

What does Christabel see when Leoline undresses? It is like the speaker of the poem has had a spell cast over them too.
REFLEXIVITY: all the characters in the poem have trouble reading Geraldine. Christabel naïve reading not correct, but can't read Geraldine. Psychological term - repression (hysteric), something she doesn't know about her but her unconscious knows.
GERALDINE AND CHRISTABEL APPEAR AS A SNAKE AND A DOVE.
The dream needs to be interpreted and misinterpreted. Dream is about what happened in Christabels bed that evening. All read pathologically; as repressed, repeated and concealed.
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