Discussion of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Refer to p. 422 in your textbook

Instructor's Introductory Information

 

• Author: Romantic Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• From Wordsworth and Coleridge's poetry collection, Lyrical Ballads
• Wordsworth's poems treated subjects from ordinary daily life in an imaginative way; Coleridge's poems treated supernatural, imaginative subjects with a semblance of reality.
• Both poets wanted readers to see another spiritual dimension of existence beyond the everyday world.
• Epigraph to Ancient Mariner (p. 422-23) attests to reality of spiritual world
• Ancient Mariner uses Gothic motifs to emphasize the supernatural

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