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This 10 page comparitive poetry paper compares the crime and punishment of the major characters in Rosetti's Goblin Market and Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Quotes, citations, examples given from each text. Symbolism, themes and interpretations explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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being mankind. In just about any sort of literary fiction, poetry included, there can be said to be some type of universal truth, some lesson that applies to just about
everyone. So it is with two poems, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Goblin Market. Both address the problem of morality, the consequences of giving in to baser
human emotions and of the punishment that man (and woman) bring on themselves. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner starts innocently enough. Three men are making their way to a
wedding when they run into a very old sailor. As they pass by him, the old sailor grabs on of them by the arm. As the young man demands to
be let go, he notices something wild in the sailors eye and it intrigues the young man. As the sailor starts to tell his tale, the wedding guest becomes so
enthralled with the telling that he almost completely forgets that he has come to see the wedding. "The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone :
He cannot choose but hear ; And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner"(Coleridge, 2002). The sailor (or Mariner) says that though they started on calm enough seas, the wind picked up, the sky darkened and the sea
grew rough. A big wind blew them into icy waters and the ship was hemmed in by giant floes of ice. Suddenly, the Mariner states, an Albatross shows up. Each
time it flies around the ship, the ice floes crack and finally the ship is able to free itself. The Albatross became the good luck symbol for the sailors. Well,
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