Lord Of The Flies By William Coleridge

The Mariner’s tale suggests a larger lesson about human life, expressing that humans are not superior to the rest of Creation and nature. Humans and all other life are equal inhabitants on planet Earth and must therefore treat each other with respect

He wasn’t human, and humans would never accept him. In more ways than one, this book is similar to The Ancient Mariner, Henry James: The Young Master, and Paradise Lost. In Coleridge’s works, his being is the last living soul on board his ship. Shelly’s mariner is similar because she experienced the desolation of being

Often held as a rite of passage and entrance into the Christian church, baptism is much more than just symbolic ritual. Baptism was commanded by Jesus Christ in the Great Commission recounted in the book of Matthew. Even though we are simplistically called to be obedient by being baptized the Christian church has long debated the aspects of this ordinance. Denominations are divided on the basic meaning, types and modes of baptism even two thousand years after the founding of the Christian church. Just as the other ordinance, the Lord’s Supper, congregations find themselves at odd with tradition, biblical interpretation and even individual understanding. However, the simple message of this awe inspiring act can be explained out of the

In the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduces an elderly sailor, whom of which is also referred to as the Ancient Mariner. In the poem, the Mariner narrates his tale of sorrow to a wedding guest. The story consists of the mariner setting out at sea with two hundred men. They come across an albatross, which is viewed as good luck, and the Mariner shoots it dead. In the event of his spiteful actions, he and his crew are haunted by Biblical allusions; all of which is created to further deepen the meaning of the poem.

We therefore commit our fellow seaman’s body to the deep, to be turned into corruption, looking for the resurrection of the body, (when the Sea shall give up her dead,) and the life of the world to come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who at his coming shall change our vile body, that it may be like his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.

The irony in “water water everywhere Nor any drop to drink” shows the Mariner’s desire to quench his thirst. By using the hyperbole “utter drought” to exaggerate the situation, the lack of drinkable water is emphasised. The “Cross”, replaced by the “Albatross”, now a symbol for the sin he committed, is a religious allegory representing one’s holding to the Bible, relaying the purity exchanged for sin. Coleridge uses sibilance in “Cross”, “Albatross”, as their symbolic meaning is paralleled; the dead albatross a reminder of the mariner’s separation from god and the cross a symbol of his

James B. Colvert, a chief critic, agrees that the sea is described as hostile and indifferent force (“Stephen” 112). At the end of the story the correspondent it taken away by the swift current but whirled back toward the land, the very thing that has put him in harm’s way has saved him (Crane 239). Along with the death of the oiler, Crane shows that nature does not act out of motivation and fate is inevitable. The internal conflict resides in the men’s realization that their survival is uncontrollable; it is up to fate. In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane it states, “If I am going to be drowned- if I am going to be drowned- if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and trees?” (Crane 232). This statement refers to the god’s who are traditionally in men’s lives as being absent toward the abandoned men. This statement alludes to Peter denying Jesus; man denying God, but Crane inverts this scene to God denying man. “Irony is Crane’s chief technical instrument,” explains critic Robert Wooster Stallman (“Stephen” 108). In the statement “When it occurs to man that nature does not regard him as important… he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples… Thereafter he knows the pathos of his situation,” it

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written as a representation of how humans and the spiritual world are intertwined. While seen several times throughout the Mariner's tale, the supernatural world does not approach the Mariner directly, but rather, it communicates through the physical, natural world. This paper will discuss how the Mariner is punished by God, the spirits of the afterlife approach him, and how God communicates to him through the Hermit. To start off, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is about how an ancient mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding to go into the bride’s room, which is improper to do, unless you’re the groom of course.

It is to be administered in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and allows believers to participate in the death and resurrection of Christ, which is revealed in Romans 6:4: “We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the death through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life”. Baptism has origins with of John the Baptist as described in the Gospels, available through the recounts from Paul.

The first of which is watching each and every sailor die (12). Nature does this as a means to single out the Ancient Mariner, since he is given a worse fate. Thus, by capturing the Ancient Mariner, nature helps push the events of the rime, while meting out punishment to those who violate her

He was taken overy by Life-in-Death and his sin nature had separated him from God, for "The horned moon, with one bright star / Within the nether tip" (line 210-211) is a pagan symbol signifying the absence of God.

The Mariner has a journey to tell, he is just outside, sitting on a stone he stops one of the wedding guests. The Mariner grabs him and the other two wedding guest were like what the heck is wrong with this old man. “Hold off! Unhand me, gray - beard loon!” (Coleridge, 11, pt. 1). But why did he chose him? Well the wedding guest guy got his attention from the Mariner’s eyes that shine so bright. He stayed to listen to this Marnier on what he was about to tell him. So the other two wedding guest stay to listen too. The Mariner tells him about the experience of the crew member of the ship and what they had been through. The three wedding guest stayed to listen to the Mariner tell them about the ship and the crew on the ship. “ The wedding sat on a stone; he cannot choose but hear; and that when the ancient man spoke” (Coleridge, 17-18, pt.1). As he tells the story to them.

Such a situation warrants Coleridge the title of visionary, and therefore his poem becomes a vision: a Romantically textual utopia whose realisation was challenged by the rational status quo of its historical origin. Due to this, Coleridge’s work will always seek practical affirmation and will therefore constantly be the source of metaphysically-oriented debate, leaving the dualism that rules it to be decided by the reader and the ideologies he or she brings to the text. This conclusion is supported by the words of John Beer:

As for the narrator in “The Seafarer”, Christianity and the belief of an afterlife saves him from ending his own life prior to believing in a place much better than his present and the endorsement of “The Measurer” if he lives on. Besides Christianity being a huge impact in this poem, the author also uses many of the techniques listed by Foster such as using season and weather to symbolize his harsh conditions. As stated by Foster, “seasons have stood for the same set of meanings,” winter, the time of “Death and rebirth, growth and harvest and death”(189-190). In “The Seafarer, the speaker clearly uses the winter weather to show his demise, and also his will of death. Yet besides his suffering, the winter also brought his growth. In that winter time, he realized his goal of life, to repay the debt he owed to his creator. Despite winter conditions, the “hail [that] fell to the ground” also symbolized as a realization as shown by Foster “It’s more than just rain or snow”, this realization revelates in the form of being enlightened religiously (69). Besides hail symbolizing a realization, the entire seafaring trip also exemplifies an important concept, Baptism, or a “rising from the dead”(169). As the speaker started on, his present was no more than a “dead life,” yet, later on, the speaker seems to “[rise] from the dead” as he realizes his demise, after the entire trip out to the sea, he returns and realizes that he had been dead all along, and that “life pertains to the love of the Lord, hope in heaven,” not “[performing] the greatest glories”(84,

In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the Mariner encounters deviations within his own behavior and otherworldly experiences that change him. However, he can only describe the surreal events, not explain them. He's unable to explain why he chose to shoot the albatross, which till that point had been a good omen. This decision lead to the death of his crewmates and the curse being placed on him. Moreover, he’s unable to explain the appearance of the ghost ship, in which Death and Life-in-death play for the crewmen’s souls. When Life in death wins his soul, he doesn’t understand why she placed the curse on him. These unfound explanations for the events reflect on how nature doesn’t have to have an answer for its actions. His perceptions of underwater creatures change from being “slimy things… upon the slimy sea” to beautiful ones that he