Wordsworth, like Coleridge, also emphasized the imagination in his works. However, his portrayal of the human imagination was a glorified one. Humans could become closer to God and find spirituality through nature and their imagination. Coleridge, on the other hand, tends to use the imagination in an almost scary way. Disney has seriously sugar-coated the original gore and horror that The Brothers Grimm implemented in their stories.
People have a natural attraction to morbid or dark things.
They also By relating his ideas of the necessary evils of our imaginations in the form of a fairy-tale, Coleridge lures his reader in. Just as Wordsworth found it worthwhile to develop some of his Lucy poems around folklore, Coleridge pulls on the curiousity and wonder of his reader with his fairy-tale elements. Contrary to Wordsworth's popular depictions of nature as a peaceful and warm place, Coleridge displays nature as an evil and dark force. For example, the beginning of the piece has Christabel alone in the woods, praying at night. This image of nature is similar to that of the haunted forest where Snow White hid from the huntsman and the forest in which Little Red Riding Hood meets the hungry wolf.