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A 5 page research paper that analyzes Christina Rossetti's "The Goblin's Market" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." The writer argues that while these poems are different in style and context, they are similar in their use of imagery. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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poem runs along similar lines. Rossettis poem abounds in sexual and sexual imagery that describes a spiritual downfall, which is also conveyed in terms of imagery that can be interpreted
as religious or biblical. Coleridges poem also contains biblical imagery -- downfall and redemption -- but also has images that are sexual. As this suggests, examination of these poems demonstrates
that while they differ considerably in style and content, they both recount spiritual decline and the struggle for survival. As pointed out by Perkins (1996) a Christian reading of
Coleridges famous ballad has been dominant for at least a century. M. H. Abrams has stated that the "persistent religious an moral allusions...both in the text and in the glosses
...invite us to take the Mariners experience as an instance of the Christian plot of moral error, the discipline of suffering, and a consequent change of heart" (Perkins, 1996, p.
425). The Mariner recounts to his captive listener how his ship was trapped in ice in a region of mist and snow when the albatross first appeared. The albatross is
greeted joyfully as a good omen, and the ice breaks, allowing the ship to sail northward. The grateful sailors feed the albatross until, the Mariner, for no apparent reason, shoots
the bird with his crossbow. With this act, which apparently was motivated by pure blood-lust, the Mariner sins not only against God,
on the Christian level, but also he also sins against nature and a moral pattern that would have humanity show respect for living things, killing only for self preservation. For
awhile the sailors good luck continues, but when the wind shifts, the sailors blame the Mariner for bringing on bad luck by killing the albatross. They force the Mariner to
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