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Title: Essential Details of Canterbury Tales, Coleridge's Ballad, Joyce and Woolf
Description: The notes are essential in two ways, as they are both concise and clear, suitable for first year.
Description: The notes are essential in two ways, as they are both concise and clear, suitable for first year.
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Water as a symbol of nature in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge’s ballad can be read as an experience of sin against nature, but also as the story of a
nightmare hiding a mysterious guilt
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In the first part of the poem, the sea is personified in the image of the ‘Storm Blast’, which is
‘tyrannous and strong’, and in the animal sounds of the icebergs that surround the ship:
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
(Part 1)
It cracked and growled and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
By killing the albatross, the sailor commits a sin against God’s creatures and nature
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The ship is becalmed in the tropics and the crew have to stand terrible heat
and thirst:
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink
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And the rain poured down from one black cloud;
The Moon was at its edge
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Title: Essential Details of Canterbury Tales, Coleridge's Ballad, Joyce and Woolf
Description: The notes are essential in two ways, as they are both concise and clear, suitable for first year.
Description: The notes are essential in two ways, as they are both concise and clear, suitable for first year.