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A 3 page essay that compares Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with "Darkness" by George Gordon, Lord Byron. No additional sources are cited.
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how lifelong guilt expresses itself through the Mariners compulsive recounting of his saga. Likewise, "Darkness" by Lord Byron, George Gordon, is also known for its apocalyptic vision of death and
destruction. A comparison of these two poems, however, shows that Byrons "Darkness" offers a more devastatingly bleak vision of human behavior and its ultimate destiny. In Mariner, see beauty in
the world and learning to love saves the Mariner, but there is no salvation or forgiveness in "Darkness." In Mariner, Coleridge sets the stage for the Mariners story by
describing how he stops a young man on his way to attend the wedding of a close relative. However, rather than experience that joyous occasion, he is held spellbound as
the Mariner recounts his fascinating story. He relates that his ship was hemmed in by ice when an Albatross appeared and the sailors took this as a good omen and
followed the bird. However, the Mariner, with a look of pain confesses that he shot and killed the Albatross with his crossbow. Stranded with no water, his shipmates blame the
Mariner and hang the corpse of the bird around his neck. The images that Coleridge presents are horrific. The spirit that follows the ship, nine fathoms below them; the
personification of Death and Nightmare Life-in-Death; the sailors all dying and then their corpses reanimating, all of these images combine to create a spectral sense of death and grief and
guilt that overwhelms the Mariner. Nevertheless, when the Mariner recognizes the beauty of the sea snakes and blesses them in his heart, he is redeemed and the Albatross falls from
his neck. However, no redemption occurs in Byrons "Darkness." Byron begins the poem by writing "I had a dream, which was not a dream" (line 1). This opening immediately
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