High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The conversation poems are a group of eight poems composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) between 1795 and 1807. Each details a particular life experience which lead to the poet`s examination of nature and the role of poetry. They describe virtuous conduct and man`s obligation to God, nature and society, and ask as if there is a place for simple appreciation of nature without having to actively dedicate one`s life to altruism.