.Astral Poetry said:I've always considered maudlin's output to symbolize childhood innocence and mystery at the world (sea!). Kayo Dot, on the other hand, is a more mature, complex, and controlled output of pure emotion.
In Romantic era poets, maudlin would be Coleridge and Kayo Dot would be Shelley (or maybe Wordsworth...)
Just keep listening to the CotE and it should unfold itself to you.