The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The two poems, “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have many similarities. Both poems are about a tremendous journey to find their place in heaven. “The Seafarer” and “The Wanderer” have their hardships and they have loneliness and sorrow throughout their journeys. The poems both use words like “icy” and “wintry,” which shown how hard the journey was. The Wanderer is forced to wander on the journey to heaven while The Seafarer choose to go on a journey. The Wanderer was forced to go on the…

killed the bird, That made the breeze to blow”( Coleridge 632). In this quote, the mariner is telling the wedding guest that he did, indeed killed the Albatross that made good things happen for his crew. Another example to go along with Karma is, “ Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink”( Coleridge 634). This quote explains that Karma got the mariner by making him get stuck in the middle of the ocean with no drinking supply. Now,…

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…

The symbolism of the Clipper Ships within Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker is a literary representation of humanity’s need for freedom in order to survive. Over the course of the novel, Nailer’s desire for independence become increasingly evident and the clipper ships epitomize the need for a certain degree of self-governance in one’s life. The importance of freedom is first displayed as Nailer begins to ponder the meaning of his existence. As Nailer enters a period of deep thought, he becomes…

In (love song, with two goldfish), Grace Chua presents both the build up to and the breakup of the relationship between to goldfish. However, through direct parallels with human behaviour, Chua represents the flaws on the human condition through an extended metaphor, personifying goldfish. Chua particularly represents the mindlessness of humans, our ingenious emotions and the way we feel despair. Whilst Chua is using fish, she draws direct parallels to human emotions and behaviours, through her…

Since they have come to be, pirates have infatuated all types of people. Their hateful, deceitful, and unloyal ways are something of great interest for many people. In many writing pieces there is usually mixture of themes like love, revenge, and hate. Robert Louis Stevenson did a fantastic job on how to create thematic statements in his novel Treasure Island. The thematic monologue “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson about a young boy named Jim Hawkins who owned also ran a motel called…

in ‘Kubla Khan’ and ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and he does not perfect the mode of sensuousness lyricism but also this is often echoed by later poets. Lowes argues that Coleridge is unusually sensitive when he employs visual imagery in ‘Kubla…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Frankenstein are both widely popular written works in the category of gothic literature. Both are masterfully written, and open to a surprisingly similar scenario: a warning passed from a wise mysterious man onto someone young and naive. Frankenstein begins with series of letters written by Robert Walton to his sister. These letters describe Walton’s expedition to the north in search of a new land. He speaks of the months of preparation beforehand, the…

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ an odd piece written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with the help of Wordsworth, is told in the form of a frame story. An old mariner walks up to wedding guests as they are walking to the celebration to tell them his tragic story. He had been on a ship with many other crew members that got lost in a storm at sea. An albatross flew onto the ship and was helping guide the crew back to safety. As the bird was not literally directing them, it served as a good luck…

had two excellent book titles to choose from. One may or may not agree with each writer’s decision. One instance in which I think that the title of a work should be revised is in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. When reading the poem, the key elements that protrude from the stanzas are the facts that the Mariner overcame sin through heartache…