Opie Taylor

Literary Analysis Timed Essay “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” written by an English poet named Samuel Taylor Coleridge a literary ballet in poem form. In the “Ancient Mariner” The main character (The Bright-Eyed Mariner) has to face many decision, and problems. The only way he comes to find a solution is by going through the hardest task that waits at the end of his journey. In the poem the author really expresses the power, and strength in which mother nature possess. One example that…

Do you ever go and sit out in nature to marvel at its beauty? Many poets spend much of their time in nature because it provides solitude and tranquility. Two poets, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, wrote many poems about their time spent in nature. Emerson and Thoreau were close friends who shared many ideas and wrote about similar subjects, but their approaches to their experiences differed significantly. Emerson observed nature rather than lived in it. He experienced nature in…

A sin and a crime can be synonymous, but it varies, based on what a person believes. A religious person would consider a crime to be a subset of sins. Based on religion, the cycle to follow after committing a crime would comprise punishment, repentance, and redemption. We see this cycle in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, as the mariner is punished by nature for killing the albatross. Readers can connect with the mariner as he deals with the consequences of his sin; he undergoes a spiritual…

child’s ignorance of the outside world, in effect, is part of their innocence. Yet, a child’s innocence depends on their family’s social class, their parents, and in particular: their race. In Mildred D. Taylor’s novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Taylor guides us through the experiences of an African American family living in the South. The Logan family, while better off than may African American families in Mississippi during the 1930s, lived during a period of time…

Three men are attending a wedding when an old sailor (the Mariner) stops one of them at the door. Using his hypnotic eyes to hold the attention of the man at the door, he starts telling a story about a perilous journey he took. The gentleman listener really wants to go inside to the wedding party, but he can't pull himself away from this great story teller. The Mariner begins his story. They left port, and the ship sailed down near Antarctica to get away from a bad storm, but then they get…

"Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834)." World Poets. Ed. Ron Padgett. Vol. 1.New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000. 249-57. Scribner Writers on GVRL. Web. 24 Apr. 2017. Darrow Kathy D. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed.…

Clash in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains some elements of the Romantic period. The poem deals with ideas about nature, supernatural world, and man’s inner self. On the other hand, R.C. Waterson says that Coleridge’s poem belongs to “no age, but to all the men of all ages” (147). In general, most critics do agree with R.C. Waterson since the poem deals mainly with man and his conflicts. The whole poem is about a seaman and his human experiences at sea.…

Rubén Darío was a revolutionary for south America, his inspiration was greatly influenced by both french as Spanish cultures. Darío described Modernismo as “new generation of American writers [with] an immense thirst for progress and a lively enthusiasm”. He creates musical poetic illusion through the repetition of sounds in his work. In his poem ‘A Roosevelt’ written in 1904 and extracted from his set of work ‘Cantos de Vida y Esperanza’, Darío repeats certain sounds in order to create a…

Wordsworth and Coleridge: Stylistic Distinctions with Spiritual Resemblance In Lyrical Ballads 1798, it is easy to distinguish the poems composed by William Wordsworth from the ones composed by Samuel Coleridge. This is not out of their divergent views, but rather, a result of their characteristic poetic styles and distinctive writing subjects. Coleridge himself gives an account of this: These are the poetry of nature… composed of two sorts… It was agreed that my endeavours should be directed…

The stanza derived from Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” is representative and reflective of the loss of faith in 19th century, Victorian England. In the stanza, “The Sea of Faith” a metaphor for the retreat from religious ideologies. Throughout the stanza Arnold is referring to this metaphor, as when he states that it “was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore.” I think that the poet is claiming that the religious beliefs that he and others have had were once very important to them. The…