Consider “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a Poem of Crime and Punishment?

“The Rime of theAncient Mariner” is the greatest achievement of S.T Coleridge. The whole story of the poem is based on the theme of crime committed by a mariner and the punishment which he had to undergo after the act of crime. In fact, the poem is an allegory of guilt and regeneration.

 

"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a Poem of Crime and Punishment:

As we go through the poem we find that the Ancient Mariner wantonly killed the Albatross, which was a bird of good omen, and which signifies the violation of the sanctified relations of the host ad guest. It is a symbolic representation of the essential frivolity of many crimes against humanity and the ordered system of the world.

 

The Mariner’s two hundred shipmates partake his guilt because they approve of his misdeed by saying that the Mariner was right to kill the Albatross which brought fog and mist. Thus the whole crew including the Mariner was guilty to be punished.  So the ship is suddenly becalmed. The sun shone directly overhead. Their supply of drinking water was finished. There was water everywhere around them but they had no a drop to drink.

 

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.

Summary and Critical Appreciation of William Wordsworth Poem “Tintern Abbey”

Summary and Critical Appreciation of  “Tintern Abbey”

Maybe “Tintern Abbey” is the most well-known poem by one of the most famous British Romantic poets. The poem has its foundations in Wordsworth's own past. Wordsworth professed to have formed the poem altogether in his mind, starting it after leaving Tintern and but rather writing down a line until he arrived at Bristol, by which time it had recently arrived at mental culmination. “This is the first Poem,” as Helen Derbyshire says, “in which Wordsworth’s genius finds full expression: the blank verse, low toned and familiar yet impassioned, moves with a sureness and inevitable ease from phase to phase to this mood.” In fact this poem sums up all the main articles of Wordsworth’s faith in Nature. To Wordsworth Nature is never dead. He discovers a dominating spirit and the contemplation of it, a holy communion with it is a source of joy, delight, consolation and thought. His philosophical thought finds an expression through the grand style. It has been enriched with autobiographical touch. It also exhibits the poet’s gradual development of thought through different stages. His mystic view of nature has been focused through these stages.

Why Blake Called the Precursor of Romantic Poetry

Blake, The Precursor of Romantic Poetry

William Blake is regarded as the precursor of romantic poetry. He belongs to the age of transition from late 18^th century to early 19^th century poetry. Some of his poems are like the poems of 18^th century poets because they give us a picture of life and society. His group of poems give us the impression of English romantic poetry because they are imaginative, sensuous and simple like the romantic poets. He writes about the beauty of nature, hills, sea, birds, tress, forest etc. which became the subject matter of romantic poets. Before the arrival of the romantic poets he wrote romantic poetry. Therefore he can be called the precursor of romantic poetry. It seems that romantic poets followed the style of Blake and gave a full expression to Blake’s romanticism.

Shakespeare’s Use of Disguise in The Twelfth Night

Use of Disguise in "The Twelfth Night":

Shakespeare was master-craftsman who has displayed great skill in the technique of the use of disguise. We find his mastery over this technique in The Merchant of Venice, As you Like It and The Twelfth Night. In The Twelfth Night Viola is the only character who assumes a disguise and her disguise affects all the other characters in the play profoundly. Her disguise is the real moving force of the main plot of this play.