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Symbolism In Coleridge's The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge focalizes on an allusion and an imagination on this poetry that create a superstition and the supernatural role; they play in an important role for symbolizing Christian imagery whereas there were many allusion are presented such as the ice; Albatross, which was been shot by the Mariner in the part I; the sea that was sinking the ship in part II; the corpses that rise on the ship in part V; and many others; those of them are all of the imagined vision that were taken as the base of action by Coleridge’s dreams. There was the union of deep emotion within a deep thought with the fine balance of truth in observing the allusion in the poem whereas the elements are the gift of spreading the depth and …show more content…

In Biographia Literaria, the text which was written by Coleridge, saying that the supernatural and the ordinary life elements originated the plain of the Lyrical Ballads in which his poem ‘The Rime of Ancient Mariner’ is also a part of the poem collections; it was agreed that his efforts transfer from our inward human nature and a semblance of truth sufficient to procure for these shadows of dream that willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith as well as it is also acting as the force in which infinite and indestructible structure of poetry. He quoted in Biographia Literaria chapter 13 that’ It [Imagination] dissolves, diffuses, dissipates in order to recreated.’ In part II after the Mariner killed the Albatross because he had nothing to eat in the ship, the atmosphere of the ventured sea has become harsher later where there’s nothing granting any good venture for his ship, which horrified the Mariner and the crews. The nature turned into anger as the wind, the sea, and the sun all come to horrify the ship as well as the later time, when the waves of the sea killed all of his sailors except the Ancient Mariner himself. The mariner’s on the killed Albatross in part I was reflecting to the time when Adam and Eve

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