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A five page paper comparing Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale” in terms of the way their imagery reflects the poet’s understanding of joy. The paper concludes that joy is spiritual rather than merely emotional, and thus Coleridge is able to tap into this faculty while Keats is not. No additional sources.
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Taylor Coleridge shows in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and John Keats suggests in "Ode to a Nightingale," one cannot know true joy unless one has also known its
opposite, for joy is something that is only possible when the maturing effects of heartbreak have been experienced and overcome. Both poets use compelling imagery to chronicle their own search
for joy, but only Coleridge is finally able to transcend the storm to feel the rapture of the rainbow. The lasting fame of Samuel Taylor Coleridge lies almost exclusively in
this one poem, for something about it exercises a peculiar hold on the imagination. Certainly the poem raises more questions than it answers -- the tale itself raises more questions
than it answers -- yet in some strange way it seems to make sense to us, like a half-remembered dream. Some of the poems appeal can be traced back to
its form. At first glance there is nothing intricate about the construction of Coleridges stanzas; the second and fourth lines rhyme, the first and third do not. As readers we
are instantly comfortable with this form because it reminds us of a very common song type, the ballad. Occasional internal rhymes -- "The ship was cleared, the harbor cheered" --
reinforce this impression, as do the alteration of four-stress lines and three-stress lines. We know without really analyzing it that most of the ballads weve heard frequently have a tragic
theme expressed in extremely simple language, so we are fully prepared for the type of story the Mariner has to tell. Then what is so arresting about this particular poem?
Possibly it is the elements of the unexplained, of the supernatural, even of the nightmare, that Coleridge slides casually into his ballad format. Why does the mariner choose this particular
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