The Rime Of The Ancient Marine
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The restrained balance valued in 18th century culture was abandoned in favor of emotional intensity, often taken to extremes of raptures, and nostalgia. The creative imagination occupied the center of Romantic views, which differed from the Victorian emphasis on politics and the orderly, logical an ....
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.... it in God’s name.”
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The significance of sighting the Albatross represents the first living creature the crew has seen, while stranded in the barren South Pole. When the Mariner shoots the bird, he is faced with judgements passed by his crewmates and natural obstacles that occur for minor periods, punishments passed by god are done mentally through the inability to pray and the death of his crewmates.
“I looked to heaven ....
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Word count: 565
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
