How is the poem Christabel by Coleridge related to lesbianism/vampire story?

Question

How is the poem Christabel by Coleridge related to lesbianism/vampire story?

Answer 1

It sin't. It si just that many lesbians or vampirettes have taken this poem as they cause du jour.

Answer 2

The poem was never finished so nobody knows how it turns out but Christabel is the daughter of a baron. She meets a young woman in the woods who says she was kidnapped and abandoned. Christabel feels immediate sympathy and friendship towards her and brings her home where they share a bed. In those days, that's NOT proof they had s*x, but it's pretty clearly implied. Christabel seems to be under a spell cast by the woman, and there are several indications the woman is a malign spirit (nothing would prove she's a vampire, particularly). The poem breaks off just after the visitor tells Christabel's father she's the daughter of an old estranged friend of the baron's.