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Throughout history, there have been specific places created by men that claim to have the ability to rehabilitate criminals and help them grow and change, but somehow those places instead of "healing" someone's criminal behavior, end up poisoning their souls even more. Whether they are called dungeons or prisons, these places that were created to correct lawbreakers, in the end, became the home of crimes as terrible or even more as the crimes committed by prisoners who are locked there. "The Dungeon" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, though symbolism exemplifies the reality of dungeons, expresses the negative effects that they have on someone's soul, and shows the absence of religion in the penal system. In contrast, Coleridge's uses of apostrophes provide a clear view of what he proposes is a better solution to heal an individual's evil, which is nature. In other words, while becoming familiar with nature, individuals will be able to appreciate its love and beauty of it.

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