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    Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ writes about a man who decides to shoot the albatross out of the sky was the first living thing they had seen since they had left port. The people on the ship had become so happy to see it and they began to feed and befriends this bird. The albatross becomes a friend of the ship and its inhabitants until they find ‘the mariner’ on the ground with a sickly look on his face because he has just killed the albatross with his cross-bow. Now that the mariner has killed this bird

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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a very long romantic poem‚ written in 1798. A major facet of romantic poetry is the use of modern or accessible language. But that is not the case with this poem. Coleridge deliberately uses antiquated language. The poem starts off with a group of men going to a wedding. A Mariner stops one of them and the man replies ’by thy long beard and glittering eye‚ now wherefore stopp’st thou me? The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide‚ and

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    Don’t Do Drugs (An analysis of 3 Messages from Rime of the Ancient Mariner) Samuel Colerige was the final poet of the Old Generation poets studied. He was known to be good friends with the famous William Wordsworth‚ and together they wrote the book known as Lyrical Ballads. A book in which was the most famous collection of poetry in that era. One of Colerige’s most famous poems is the poem called Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ a poem about a crazy man telling an insane story. The content of the story

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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner- Analysis * Verse drama * Major characters: the Mariner and the Wedding Guest - to enjoy the poem‚ one must visualize the actions and facial expressions of these two characters. The poem can be read on at least three levels‚ two of which tend to overlap: * The literal level -The poem can be enjoyed simply as a suspenseful adventure story. * The moral level - The Mariner’s killing of the bird is a symbolic representation of original sin. The punishment

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    meaningful message. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner portrays an old sailor telling a man the story of his embarkment on a sea expedition with his fellow crew‚ where he shoots an innocent Albatross and must deal with the consequences of his careless actions. Coleridge’s use of imagery illustrates the message that living in isolation and guilt can be worse than not living at all. Rime of the Ancient Mariner shows that death can be preferable to isolation and guilt. Coleridge

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    Samuel Coleridge’s allegorical poem of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells of a story of an old mariner who destroys a beautiful piece of nature‚ in this case‚ an albatross‚ without any reasoning and suffers from his punishment from nature where in the end‚ learns to recognize the beauty of it. Readers at the time perceive the poem with religious interpretations; however it was not until the conclusion of the Romanticism period that the poem is recognized for its thematic undertones concerning

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    Heldt Mr. Bender English 10000 8 May 2012 The Sea After reading The Old Man and the Sea‚ written by Ernest Hemingway‚ I found the most interesting part of the book to be the sea itself. One can almost consider the sea another character‚ due to the vital role it plays in the short novella. The sea provides a glimpse at Santiago’s knowledge and experience that he has acquired throughout the course of his life. As well as the sea is used as a metaphor to the literary community‚ if one

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    English Rime of the Ancient Mariner/ Frankenstein: The poem starts whit three young men walking together to a wedding‚ when one of them is repress by a grizzled old sailor. The young Wedding-Guest angrily demands that the mariner let go of him‚ and the mariner does. But the young man is hypnotized by the ancient mariner’s “glittering eye” and can do nothing but sit on a stone and listen to his strange tale. The Mariner says that he sailed on a ship out of his native harbor

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    Coleridge ’s "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" tells the story of an ancient mariner who kills an albatross and brings upon himself and his ship ’s crew a curse. The ancient mariner travels the world‚ unburdening his soul‚ telling his story to whomever needs to hear it. Shelley alludes to the poem several times. Robert Walton in Frankenstein is similar to the Wedding Guest from "Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚" with Victor Frankenstein playing the role of the mariner. As the mariner feels compelled to share his

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    Autobiography: The Sea My family took a vacation the summer before sixth grade. We were in Maui‚ Hawaii to be exact‚ it was paradise. We walked to the beach from my family’s cabin everyday. As I looked around‚ the white sand felt scalding and the water was warm. The shore was filled with coral rocks‚ crashing waves and laughing children playing with the warm‚ wet sand. The water rose and fell‚ each time dissolving a sand castle into mud and making a child scream and run playfully from the water

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