High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dejection: An Ode was a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1802. The poem in its original form was written to Sara Hutchinson, a woman who was not his wife, and discusses his feelings of love for her. The various versions of the poem describe Coleridge`s inability to write poetry and living in a state of paralysis, but published editions remove his personal feelings and mention of Hutchinson.