There are billions of authors, so billions of ideas, imaginations, stories, but themes; the key points, are always similar in some way. Why is this even though everyone thinks differently? Taking a look at The Rape of the lock by Alexander Pope, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; we can see that they both have multiple different themes, but one theme in particular that they have in common is suffering. “You must let suffering , if you want to hear the truth” as Cornel West, a philosopher, said. When we look at the two poems separately, we do not think of any comparison between them at all, they are very different, one is telling the story of a girl getting her haircut unwillingly, the other is talking about a crew
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With these few lines he creates an image of something crossing over the sun, casting shadows over everything, this created the illusion of a jail cell. This illusion of a jail cell makes the Mariner feel trapped, it brings upon a very scary realization of what is going on, what he did and how it’s affecting him now. These mixed feelings of dread he is getting makes the reader feel as if they are also in this situation, that they are becoming trapped within the poem along side of the …show more content…
With these two lines, he creates a beautiful image of Clarissa pulling out scissors, but it can also be looked at her pulling out a sword and preparing for war. He does this double imagery to evoke a sense of fear, he wants to create a more dramatic scene for it for Belinda; a lock of her hair in about to be snipped away. When the time finally comes and her hair is cut, “Flash’d the living Lightnings from her Eyes/And Screams of Horror rend th’ affrighted Skies” , Belinda is traumatized(line 155-156)(Pope, Alexander). Her lovely hair that everyone adores was just taken away from her, Pope even goes as far as to subtly relate it to her virginity being stolen. Pope creates such a dramatic scene of suffering with his
With these few lines he creates an image of something crossing over the sun, casting shadows over everything, this created the illusion of a jail cell. This illusion of a jail cell makes the Mariner feel trapped, it brings upon a very scary realization of what is going on, what he did and how it’s affecting him now. These mixed feelings of dread he is getting makes the reader feel as if they are also in this situation, that they are becoming trapped within the poem along side of the …show more content…
With these two lines, he creates a beautiful image of Clarissa pulling out scissors, but it can also be looked at her pulling out a sword and preparing for war. He does this double imagery to evoke a sense of fear, he wants to create a more dramatic scene for it for Belinda; a lock of her hair in about to be snipped away. When the time finally comes and her hair is cut, “Flash’d the living Lightnings from her Eyes/And Screams of Horror rend th’ affrighted Skies” , Belinda is traumatized(line 155-156)(Pope, Alexander). Her lovely hair that everyone adores was just taken away from her, Pope even goes as far as to subtly relate it to her virginity being stolen. Pope creates such a dramatic scene of suffering with his