Hi all!
I should find some significant images of the romantic poetry and explain briefly the symbolic ideas of those images. Unfortunately, I have problems to find four of those images and of course i don't know the symbolic meaning either...
If anyone of you knows in which poem i can find any of the following images, please help me. They should be from the poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats or Byron.

The unknown images are:
- ghost
- lute
- root
- storm

Thank you

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Les

Reading the question, I immediately thought of this one by Blake:

O rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

Thank you for your help...
I found most of the elements so far. the lute and the storm are probably from coleridge's dejection: an ode, and the ghost should be from byron's don juan (canto 16). but I don't know the meaning yet.
The one which i have really problems with is the "root". I found the word in 4 different poems, maybe someone of you knows those poems better and can tell me whether it is important or not.
The poems that include the word "root" are:
- Blake: marriage of heaven and hell
- Coleridge: the rime of the ancient mariner
- shelley: the triumph of life
- byron: don juan (canto 1)

Ok, if you have any ideas please let me know.

Hmmm ... I might also have thought of the ghost in Mariner,

I moved, and could not feel my limbs :
I was so light--almost
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blesséd ghost.

And from the same poem, there is a root,

And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root ;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.

There is no lute there, but maybe a typo for flute?

And now 'twas like all instruments,
Now like a lonely flute ;
And now it is an angel's song,
That makes the heavens be mute.

Plus, there was a storm there:

`And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong :
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along

Perhaps the assignment is to find all those elements in works of each of the authors?