Irony In The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

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An old Mariner stopped a man who was on his way to a wedding. The fisherman began to tell a story about a fishing trip he took with his crew. While out at sea, all of the Mariner’s men died, leaving him all alone. When they passed, the fishermen could only see “the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky.” (Coleridge) Chiasmus in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, explained that the fisherman was disoriented and lost. If “the sky was the sea, and the sea was the sky,” (Coleridge) then his whole world must have seemed upside down and turned around. Because the only thing in sight was the sky and sea (the Mariner was in the middle of the ocean) the event became an all-consuming experience, which exaggerated

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