Christian Allegory in "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems more like a miniature epic. However‚ not only it is a ballad talking about the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for life because he kills an albatross; deeper than that‚ it is also a religious allegory conveying numerous themes pertaining to Christianity. On the one hand‚ if one reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" simply as a tale at sea‚ the
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recent decades. While Roberts has been acclaimed for successfully tackling whole albums of traditional material with considerable aplomb -- see his sparse but assured 2001 full solo debut‚ Crook of My Arm; 2005’s unflinching collection of murder ballads‚ No Earthly Man; or the tender and well-researched 2010 set Too Long in This Condition -- never has his music souwell-researched 2010 set Too Long in This Condition -- never has his music sounded so universal and
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge presents a complex web of themes and symbols within the seemingly simple plot line of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The story of the seafarer with the ’glittering eye’ (1.13) and his puzzling tale at sea told to an unwilling listener‚ the Wedding Guest‚ unfolds into a multifaceted array of planned sequences‚ heavy religious undertones‚ and hints at a biographical account of Coleridge’s past. If one reads The Rime of the Ancient Mariner simply as a tale at sea‚ the poem
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stanzas written in ballad metre. Lines one and three also have more beats in them than lines two and four. (If you want to get a bit more technical‚ one and three are tetrameters‚ two and four trimeters! Tetrameters have four stresses‚ trimeters have three stresses). Sound As a reminder of ballad metre‚ think of the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem. Using ballad metre means that the poem lends itself to being read aloud and has harmony‚ rhyme and rhythm that are quite lyrical. Imagery The
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collections “An Evening Walk” and “Descriptive Sketches”. He was died in 23 April 1850‚ at the age of 80. His major occupation is a poet‚ especially an English romantic poet. Some of his notable works are Lyrical Ballads‚ Poems in two volumes‚ The Excursion‚ The Prelude. The earlier Lyrical Ballads had been first published in 1798 and had started the Romantic Movement in England. It had brought Wordsworth and the other Lake poets into the poetic limelight. The Prelude was a semi-biography poem which
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reliance on nature‚ emotional expression and the personal world of imagination. His two poems ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ and ‘The Solitary Reaper’ match and reflect this and his beliefs about good poetry‚ as expressed in his famous preface to ‘Lyrical Ballads’. Through Wordsworth’s use of stylistic and poetic techniques‚ such as personification and sibilance‚ he has emotively recounted his personal experiences to the reader‚ linking the importance of nature to humanity. Wordsworth describes poetry
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ENG 102 March 19‚ 2013 Poe’s Lost Love When first reading “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe‚ there’s a sense of love that you can feel realistically and immediately. Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous poets of the 19th century. Poe is considered to be the father of modern detective stories and highly admired. The dark gruesome images that Poe depicts are what makes readers love his work. He paints a clear picture and uses that setting to his advantage in each of his dark tales. In “Annabel
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JOHN KEATS (1795-1821) * He’s the forerunner of the English aestheticism. * Member of the Second generation of Romantic poets who blossomed early and died young. He is Romantic in his relish of sensation‚ his feeling for the Middle Ages‚ his love for the Greek civilization and his conception of the writer. He was able to fuse the romantic passion and the cold Neo-classicism‚ just as Ugo Foscolo did in “LE GRAZIE” and in “I SEPOLCRI”. * He was born in London; he attended a private school
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classification are by purpose (sacred vs secular)‚ by style (dance‚ ballad‚ Lied‚ etc.)‚ or by time of origin (Renaissance‚ Contemporary‚ etc.). A song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice/voices or‚ "the act or art of singing‚" but the term is generally not used for large vocal forms including opera and oratorio.[1] However‚ the term is‚ "often found in various figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a sonata...)."[1] The noun "song" has the same
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was primarily utopian and idealist‚ and when the French failed to live up to expectations‚ most English intellectuals renounced the Revolution. However‚ the romantic vision had taken forms other than political‚ and these developed apace. In Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800)‚ a watershed in literary history‚ William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge presented and illustrated a beneficial visual: poetry should express‚ in genuine language‚ experience as filtered through personal emotion and imagination;
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