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    Ancient Mariner Tone

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    In the recording of part four of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” the reader uses a wide range of tone to emulate the emotions described by the Mariner. Her strategic pronunciations, and shifts in volume and tone emphasized the visual imagery that Coleridge uses to describe the setting. The audio recording was also able to highlight for me exactly where the Mariner comes to his realization that all life is sacred. Coleridge uses visual imagery to describe the disgusting remains of the ship and

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    An Explication of William Wordsworth’s "Tintern Abbey June 13, 1798”. In the poem Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour William Wordsworth seems to be drunken from nostalgia as he revisits his not entirely distant past. “His passion for the landscape is physical, taken in through his eyes, unmediated by more abstract (or spiritual) thought (Pearson n.p)”. As he stands over the lush farmland, not yet ripe, he describes a familiar but missed

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    The Way Wordsworth and Heaney Present Nature and Rural Life in Their Poetry Born 1770, in Cockermouth, William Wordsworth spent his early life and many of his formative years attending a boys' school in Hawkshead, a village in the Lake District. As can be seen in his poetry, the years he spent living in these rural surroundings provided many of the valuable experiences Wordsworth had as he grew up. At the age of 17, Wordsworth moved south to study at Saint John's College

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    "Wordsworth was undoubtedly the contemporary poet who exerted the most influence on Keats. A number of specialized studies, as well as scores of notes in annotated editions and passages in critical and biographical works, have sought to document the ways in which the elder affected the younger poet's writing and thinking" (Lau). John Keats was considered one of the central figures in the second generation of the Romantics. The following paper will discuss the influence of William Wordsworth, who

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    The hustle and bustle of modern day prevents people from truly contemplating the meanings of their life. People nowadays have little time to become one with nature and detach themselves from technology. Two poets who captured the beauty of connecting with nature are Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth. Smith in her piece “Written on the Banks of the Arun” describes in a cold and melancholy manner what she experiences near the Arun bank. Meanwhile, Wordsworth in his piece “Lines Composed a Few

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    John Muir and William Wordsworth are great examples of this theory. Throughout their stories, both men give great insight to how the harmony of nature impacts their lives in a way that can make them forget about all the sorrow and depression they have following behind them; Wordsworth and Muir’s stories include syntax and diction to verbalize their passionate relationship towards nature. William Wordsworth’s poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” excellently shows how the power of beauty can changes

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    Written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a poet depicting the adventures and experiences of a mariner sailing the seas. Throughout the poem, there a many literary devices that bring the tale to life and help the readers understand the turmoil that the mariner went through. Those devices include, but are not limited to, personification, metaphors, alliteration, and assonances. Without the use of these elements, the poem would not have been as effective. One of the

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    In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge uses the method of storytelling to acknowledge and implement the reader into the situations that the Mariner faces. Coleridge does this by implementing vivid imagery into his poem to create a tale that we the readers can easily follow such as the tales we tell one another today to learn or understand different concepts in modern day life. The concept of sin and atonement are the allegories that we learn about in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner;

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    During the eighteenth century, it was a time where people were obsessed with rationality and scientific precision. In response to this, artists created a literary movement- the Romantic period. This period was not just about love stories; it was a social movement revolved around the concept of imagination. Poets used imagination to escape the troubles going on in the real world. Two authors who used their imagination during this time are William Wordsworth and John Keats. Both Wordsworth and Coleridge

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    Jacob Donahue English Mr. White 4/2/17-Per. E The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a Romantic Parable The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a prime example of a Romantic parable, dealing with supernatural elements, images of nature, and religious symbols and expression of spirituality. These representations of Romanticism are explored throughout the parable. The mariner in the story tells a tale full of supernatural elements that consist of sailor tales and stories in mythology. “And round and round

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