“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and Paradise Lost. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ after killing an albatross‚ the mariner’s ship is repeatedly faced with difficult circumstances. After unwillingly winning the battle between life and death‚ he comes to understand that evil exists so people can know the forgiveness of God‚ although consequences will be present. “I shot the Albatross….but no sweet bird did follow‚ not any day for food or play came to the Mariner’s hello!” (779). In Paradise
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maze of ice. But then the sailors encountered an Albatross‚ a great sea bird. As it flew around the ship‚ the ice cracked and split‚ and a wind from the south drove the ship out of the frigid regions‚ into a foggy stretch of water. The Albatross followed behind it‚ a symbol of good luck to the sailors. A pained look crosses the Mariner’s face‚ and the Wedding-Guest asks him‚ “Why look’s thou so?” The Mariner confesses that he shot and killed the Albatross with his crossbow. At first‚ the other sailors
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journey on a “bright” and “cold” day. Against the will of the wedding guest‚ the Ancient Mariner spends the remainder of Part 1 describing his tale in detail; which eventually leads to the shooting of a magnificent and supposedly good omen of an albatross. Before the actual narrative of the poem begins‚ the reader is presented with a Latin epigraph taken from Burnet’s "Archaeologiae Philosophicae" (1692). The main theme taken from this quotation is that one must maintain a balance between acknowledging
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ the Mariner is the character that gives the wedding-guest in the poem‚ and readers‚ essential life lessons. The importance of Christianity and having faith is displayed in this poem when the Mariner says‚ “As if it [an Albatross] had been a Christian soul‚ / We hailed it in God’s name.” (Coleridge 365). That line is essential because it shows how the
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Comment on the Narrative Methods used in Part 1 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Part one of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner opens with a third person omniscient narrator: ‘It is an ancient Marinere‚ And he stoppeth one of three.’ This person represents Coleridge as he knows everything that is happening in the poem‚ and he is setting the scene for the rest of the lyrical ballad. Other people may take the view that the omniscient narrator represents God‚ as he is seen by religious people as the
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E3B柯玟曲 401110860 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part 3 In Part 3‚ the poem becomes more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Ancient Mariner and his fellow sailors. Like they have spent a long time drifting on the ocean with no wind or water‚ and everyone is sick of it. Then they saw a ghostly ship neared‚ but his mouth is too dry to shout. So he bites his arm to wet his lips with his own blood‚ just enough so that he can shout. His crewmates are so happy that they shout
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asks for forgiveness of his agony but still after he tells his tale the agony returns at random times. A merciful God would grant permanent mercy. For all‚ the Mariner has been through death and hardship of his crew because of the killing of the albatross. The thought of his crime is enough agony but the Mariner’s agony returns until he has to relive the tragedy of the killing of his crew by telling his tale to another person. The fact that the agony always returns is particularly horrible
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Hillary Taylor English 1302/Vasbinder June 9‚ 2012 Essay 1/TPCAST/Final I’m Sorry My Snake In the poem “Snake‚” D.H. Lawrence will discuss someone who has wronged him or done something deceitful to him. As one can see in the following paragraph‚ Lawrence’s poem “Snake‚” is about the narrator’s encounter with a venomous snake at a water trough. The narrator appears to be a man who owns the water trough‚ and comes to it quite often. Once he arrives at the trough‚ the narrator sees that he
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gauge level‚ but were glad that we couldn’t see any water when we looked out the windows. After looking at a bit of the washover on Sand Island‚ and setting a crew to work on digging albatross chicks and petrels out of the debris‚ Greg and I took the boat over to Eastern Island. On the way‚ we passed thousands of albatross adults and petrels that had been
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The experience of the Mariner on the open sea and the experience of the wedding guest on land both work to show the truth of Kafka’s idea. BODY PARAGRAPH: Topic Sentence: The experience of the mariner after his fateful decision to kill the albatross proves the truth of what Kafka had to say. Evidence/Explanation: After the mariner rashly chooses to kill an innocent creature of nature‚ Coleridge depicts a series of gruesome torments for the mariner. He faces dehydration‚ his entire crew dies
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