Ancient Mariner : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge.
... can be stirring and ringing, or else sweet, in a popular way; but to sustain in it a story which keeps a tense edge of magical or splendid suggestion is a proof of rare genius. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is faultless save for its tame moral conclusion inserted on the advice of Wordsworth and regretted by the author ever after. It is a wonder he did not drop the peccant stanzas: they are absolutely... Death cometh soon or late Page 52 without a cry of pain at its ring of false metal, one cannot refrain from laughter at the goody-goody sentimentalism tagged on to the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge: He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. It cannot be arraigned on the... cryptic tinge, so that the supernatural is never far away, although its nearness is unlike the atmosphere created in Coleridge's poem. In Coleridge the inspiration is more weirdly cryptic — the ancient mariner is a creature haunted by supernatural life-forms whose touch is almost directly felt by us; Chesterton's verse is haunted by supernatural idea-forms — that is, a peculiar nuance in the language ...
... anarchy: for Mediaeval man always anything might happen. Surely this has some relation to certain moods of a poem like The Ancient Mariner or Christabel: what relation has it to the larger sweep of the supernatural that the Celtic intensity brings? And even in The Ancient Mariner Coleridge goes far beyond mediaeval superstition and fantasy, the haunting horrors in Gothic settings that in his time were... superego, an ideal of conduct, often a highly quixotic one" and that the "dream-life" he has in view is what we have a feeling of in poems like Keats's La Belle Dame Sans Merci or Coleridge's The Ancient Mariner or Morris's The Haystack in the Floods 4 - even Page 145 when he opines that "health, both in life and in literature, lies between excess of self-consciousness and excess of ...
... Gita which are based on a similar thought, though from the Vedantic, not the dualist point of view. But throughout the Ancient Mariner Coleridge is looking at things from the point of view and the state of mind of the most simple and childlike personality possible, the Ancient Mariner who feels and thinks only with the barest ideas and the most elementary and primitive emotions. The lines he writes ...
... Coleridge's Kubla Khan was composed during a dream. But it is a wonder of brief spell and Coleridge never met with a repetition of the experience, though we may be right in viewing The Ancient Mariner and Christabel as resulting from a sort of prolongation or projection of the dream-state into the waking consciousness. If Milton is to be believed, he had a Kubla-Khan experience night... grotesque, the weak, the ineffective in him only show how much his mind carried a superficial habit of imagination and the common colour of physicalities into the mediumistic state. If Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Christabel can be said to project part of the dream-consciousness into the waking world, Milton's inferior moments in Paradise Lost may be said to act the other way around. Even his ...
... equate mysticism with "loss of nerve" is sheer prejudice. No doubt, Coleridge happened to be a man who produced the impression of suffering from such a loss - but when he wrote that letter and The Ancient Mariner and the first part of Christabel he was full of life and had not surrendered his will to laudanum: his vitality was almost always a-dance, as Hazlitt and others have recorded. Even Kubla ...
... much before Hugo's splash into poetry, though not earlier than Rousseau's famous Romanticist books in prose. Lyrical Ballads was the joint work of Wordsworth and Coleridge. Cole-ridge had The Ancient Mariner in this publication and it was as organic to the new Romanticist Movement as that other of Wordsworth's. But Wordsworth was the more powerful, more comprehensive, more harmonised poet and he is ...
... details by a reference to the epic. That does not diminish its own poetic creativity, its own imaginative originality, any more than J. Livingstone Lowe's tracing of innumerable details of The Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan in a 243. Ibid. 244. Ibid., 11 .900-904. Page 126 variety of books by others lessens the supreme and unique inspiration of these works of Coleridge's ...
... unchanging friend. God bless you. The thing has come, as all of you can easily see, from the very core of his heart, and prayer does come from the heart. Isn't it in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" that Samuel Taylor Coleridge says: 78 Farewell, farewell! But this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well, Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best ...
... might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware. (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner). 59. Savitri, p. 160. 60. ibid. , p. 163. 61. ibid. , p. 167. 62. ibid. , p. 169. 63. ibid. , pp. 169-70. 64. ibid. , p. 171 ...
... and foul of hue. This is not exactly open Phanopoeia, but its appeal is to the sight. It is an effectively repellent visual touch, the direct description of a preternatural horror. In The Ancient Mariner Coleridge has used this method very successfully — you may remember the glittering eye and the skinny hand of the old salt himself. Coleridge felt that Christabel was a more eerie poem and ...
... 107, 157 Ahania, 1 80 Albion, 153, 188, 195-96, 202, 224, 234, 246, 249, 250, 262 Alchemic and Hermetic thought, iii, viii Alchemical philosophy, 27 America, 163, 202, 203 Ancient Mariner , The, 126 "And did these feet in ancient time . . ." (interpretation), 245-53 "Angel Tiger", 42 Annotations to Swedenborg's Divine Love, 70 fn. 58 Anti-Trinitarianism, 101-02 ...
... poet while he looks upon the swans moving about, "unwearied, lover-by lover..." Here the poet has transcended the corporeal and grazed the overmental levels. In Coleridge's "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner", when the mariner beholds the sea creatures playing about in the sea and in a total thoughtless state blesses them from deep within his heart, the albatross that hung like a cross round his neck ...
... To Sethna, Wordsworth is undoubtedly the central figure in the Romantic Movement in England, Even Coleridge's claim to this honour is rejected though the Indian critic concedes that The Ancient Mariner included in Lyrical Ballads is as organic to the new Romantic Movement as the poems of Wordsworth. As poet, * Sethna's book on the subject concerned is awaiting publication. - Editors ...
... 1938 "A touch of thy hand, a brief glitter of thy eyes Releases unknown springs from my body's earth..." Perspiration? "He held him with his glittering eye"? But this is not the Ancient Mariner. "Glitter of eye" suggests anger, greed, etc. "Thy vigilant caress leads pace by pace The lonely caravan of my God-desire..." A caress can't lead a caravan. Guru, how is this poem ...
... "Yes. Wordsworth's birthplace. Haven't you read about it in his works? You must have heard about his sister Dorothy and his friend Coleridge." "Of course we have. Coleridge who wrote the 'Ancient Mariner' - isn't that so? 'The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free, We were the first who ever burst Into that silent sea.' "What marvellous poetry! And his 'Kubia ...
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