Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Essay

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Poetry Explication “ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Romanticism turned away from the eighteenth-century emphasis on reason and artifice. Instead, the Romantics embraced imagination and naturalness. Many Romantics turned to a past or an inner dream world that they felt was more picturesque and magical than the ugly industrial age they lived in. Also, Romantics thought of nature as transformative; they were fascinated by the ways nature and the human mind “mirrored” each other's creative properties. ( ) Romanticism and nature are connected because the romantics of that time period accentuated the magnificence and the allure of nature, and the influence of nature in the world. Some intellectuals of romanticism concluded that romantics …show more content…

The first example beginning on line 13. “ He holds him with his glittering eye- the wedding guest stood still, and listens like a three years’ child: The Mariner hath his will.”( ) This points back to romanticism by using magic. The Mariner has a magic eye that makes the wedding guest freeze so he has to listen to his story. “Many Romantics turned to a past or an inner dream world that they felt was more picturesque and magical than the ugly industrial age they lived in.” ( ) Another example of romanticism being portrayed in part one begins in line 63. “ At length did cross an Albatross, through the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God’s name.” ( ) An Albatross came flying by through the fog and the sailors thought it was sent from God. People during the romantic era were big on respecting nature because that is what many Romantics believed in. They thought of nature as transformative. ( ) Lines 79-82 are another good example of how romanticism is being portrayed. “ God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!- Why look’st thou so?- With my crossbow I shot the Albatross.” ( ) The ancient Mariner killed the bird that was thought to be of good omen for no apparent reason. Being that it was the romantic era and nature was highly respected, the ancient Mariner was believed to have been

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