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This 4 page paper discusses the romantic elements inherent in Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Examples are given throughout the paper with supportive quotes from the text.Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to delve into the actual study of poetry, the redemption of the universal truths that are always contained in a poem, set mankind free. 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 The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner. This epic poem addresses the punishment that man (and woman) bring on themselves, in classic Romanic fashion, when they move further away from the natural world.
Romanticism is the term that is generally ascribed to the changing of those prevailing classical attitudes in all the areas, including literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism and historiography in Western
civilization. If Classical styles were seen as being typically calm, harmonious, balanced, structured, and rational, then the Romantic period was anything but those things. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective,
the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. 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 wildness of the mariner is most significant in
the telling of the tale. The contrast of the sane wedding-goer and the insane sailor is profound. Consider that the wedding-goer is attending a celebration of love and life, whereas
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