The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

that are prevalent in the works from 1789 until 1832. One major theme in the Romantic period that two poems relate to is nature. One selection that illustrates nature is Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Rime of the Ancient Mariner demonstrates why humans should respect nature because when the Mariner kills the albatross, the…

Robert Walton, reveals in one of his letters that “he shall not kill no albatross” (19) making an allusion to the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel T. Coleridge. In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the old Mariner kills an innocent albatross for no reasonable reason while the bird had tried to help him and his crew. The spirits of the sea murder everybody on board and leave the mariner alive, the same way Dr. Frankenstein’s family is murdered by the Creature who allows Dr. Frankenstein to…

Literature is a fundamental basis for humanity. Throughout the years mankind has inhabited the Earth, recording culture, values, stories and events through the written word. Writing these stories down are their authors, many of which have become well known and world renowned for their creativity and contribution to the world’s libraries. One such author is Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a English poet and author who helped to create the romantic movement, additionally demonstrating the elements that…

irony can be found in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is about an old sailor who stops three guys on their way to a wedding and begins to tell a story about a disastrous journey he took. In the story, Coleridge writes, “Water, water, everywhere, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink." (Coleridge 3). This is an instance of situational irony because the mariner is stranded in…

“The Albatross” by Kate Bass is about a housewife uneasily awaiting her husband’s return with her young daughter, with the theme being one of falling out of love and an unhappy marriage, with the wife wishing in vain that she could preserve the time when she and her husband were untroubled. The poem can be found at the site Poetry Out Loud (http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/237550). The poem is a first person, free-verse short story about a moment in a woman’s life that she is dreading: her…

The reader of “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner” may think that punishment of the mariners is finished when he cherishes the beauty of water-snakes. But once the negative energy is created it is unfixable. Most of the visible traces of the mariner’s crime have vanished, but the punishment of Life-in-Death is still at work. Since he has committed a hideous act, the mariner will ever be the man that he once was. He has a special past and a special…

alludes to Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to parallel the mariner’s cursed life with Victor Frankenstein’s. Whilst, the mariner’s curse is that he must live on in “Night-mare Life in-Death” indulging the death of his crew surrounding him, Victor must live his life through the prevailing errors that reign his mind of the faults and deaths of all whom he loves by creating the monster. In comparison, both gothic texts prevail from the instances of the mariner shooting the…

and music. These mediums frequently depicted how people would set out on shabby ships and set forth to confront the risk of obscure oceans, high winds, monstrous waves, wearisome days adrift, and the oppressive warmth of the sun. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest significant ballad by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published…

Rhetorical themes such as the concept of the femme fatale is evident throughout the gothic novels Christabel, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lamia, and Carmilla. Even though the femme fatale was being portrayed in literature, it was representative of unrest about the rise of the “new woman” as females were becoming more powerful in society. In this time period was a realistic fear for the community and portraying women that are loose, seductive, and deadly if not kept under control. These…

was a strange tale. An initial purpose of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” though, was to persuade people to follow God. After the Mariner proclaims “I shot the ALBATROSS,” in line 82, he and the crew endure many terrible, supernatural events (Coleridge). When it came out, readers would have been influenced to not act as the Mariner did because God punishes him for killing the bird throughout the poem. The piece’s message was then, as the Mariner stresses in lines 618 to 621, “He prayeth best,…