English Literature: September 2020

Tuesday 22 September 2020

Comment on Coleridge’s Treatment of Supernatural in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

Coleridge’s Treatment of Supernatural in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

S.T Coleridge is the greatest English poet of supernaturalism and his The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the best poems of supernatural ever written in English literature. As we go through the poem, there is a “willing suspension of disbelief” on our part.