strong human spirit is essential for an imaginative journey to flow through our mind. The success is the journey that is being taken not the destination. This can be expressed through the poems “Frost at Midnight and Kubla Khan‚” by Sammuel Taylor Coleridge and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou that see the journey as the success not the outcome and that their strong human spirit allowed them to go on the journey. In the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou the poet expresses her journey through being
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Some Readers think the ballad form limits their interest in The Ancient Mariner. What is your view of Coleridge’s use of this form? In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ Coleridge employs the ballad form to contrast the traditional with the exotic through this he forms a poem full of supernatural elements that is easily accessible. The ballad form was a typical form of medieval poetry that was revived by the Romantics as it symbolised a form representative of an idealised past. It is also associated
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Romantic poetry began with French Revolution in 1789. Romantic period is based on freedom of thought. The transition from structured form to imagination and individualism. Romanticism is means return to nature. Another means we can say ; everything take place around nature. In that period supernatural things is our imagination. Nature is the most significant subject in this period. Writers inspire from the nature. In that period William
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126 The Ocean-Desert: The Ancient Mariner and. The Waste Land FLORENCE MARSH WHEN Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner and T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land are juxtaposed‚ the two poems become mutually illuminating. Nor is the juxtaposition arbitrary‚ since both are essentially religious poems concerned with salvation. In both‚ the protagonist needs to recover from a living death‚ from spiritual dryness. Structurally‚ The Waste Land has almost no narrative thread‚ no story‚ but it sounds motifs that
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William Shakespeare‚ focuses on Hamlet’s thirst to avenge the death of his father. However‚ throughout the play‚ Shakespeare also highlights Hamlet’s flaw to act because he over analyzes situations that lead him to delay his actions. Samuel Taylor Coleridge expresses his view about Hamlet stating that Hamlet is slow to act which results the play to end tragically. Coleridge’s view is evident throughout the play because Hamlet’s intelligence proved not to be valuable but led to his death. The soliloquy
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The Pride of the Mariner “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge is a mysterious‚ complicated‚ intriguing tale of a sea voyage recounted by a Mariner to a wedding guest he encounters just as the wedding is about to commence. The unwilling wedding guest is mesmerized by the Mariner and the recitation of the story recalling the storm‚ fog‚ drought‚ ghost ship‚ spirits‚ angels‚ dead bodies‚ and the Albatross. Coleridge’s tale has the Mariner journeying through pride‚ suffering‚ the supernatural
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English 2323 Reading Assignment 1 The Romantic Period (1785-1832) Online Period Introduction Overview and Period Introduction Quizzes I am assigning the online period introduction overviews and online quizzes for both the 8th and 9th editions of The Norton Anthology of English Literature (NAEL) because each provides some information that the other does not. As you will see in the reading list below‚ I have also assigned the introduction to this literary period in your textbook and provided the
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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
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at a different approach to thought. The Romantic period‚ roughly between the years of 1785 to 1830‚ was a period when poets turned to nature‚ their individual emotions‚ and imagination to create their poetry. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth‚ Coleridge‚ Shelley‚ and Keats rejected conventional literary forms‚ regular meters‚ and complex characters and experimented with emotion and nature subjects in their poems which marked a literary renaissance. Besides a response to the Enlightenment‚ the industrial
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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The poem‚ “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a truly imaginative work utilizing the familiar yet timeless themes of good fortune‚ the power of Mother Nature‚ and adventurous voyages over the sea. The Mariner relates the bone-chilling tale of his adventure to a guest at a wedding in his native country. Although the guest succumbs to the Mariner’s tale‚ he is eager to get to the wedding‚ which is about to start. Coleridge chose this occasion
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