...The Lake Poets The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge hone his craft. Troubled by debt, though, he left Cambridge in 1793 and enlisted in the 15th Dragoons, a British army regiment, under the alias Silas Tomkyn Comberbache. After being rescued by his brothers, Coleridge returned to Cambridge, but he left again, in 1794, without having earned a degree. That year, Coleridge met the author Robert Southey, and together they dreamed about establishing a utopian community in the Pennsylvania wilderness of America. Southey, however, backed out of the project, and their dream was never realized. notable quote “No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.” fyi Did you know that Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . . • developed a fascination with the supernatural at age five? • was known as a brilliant and captivating conversationalist? • was the most influential literary critic of his day? • liked to write poetry while walking? Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772–1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is famous for composing “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” considered two of the greatest English poems. As a critic and philosopher, he may have done more than any other writer to spread the ideas of the English romantic movement. Precocious Reader The youngest of ten For more on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, visit the Literature Center at ClassZone.com. children, Coleridge grew up feeling rejected by his...
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...Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Spiritual Connection Between “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” and the Holy Scripture. Donald McCoy Liberty University September 15, 2014 Many authors attempt to convey some sort of message in their writings, whether it be that of Romances’ by Shelley, the plight of women in the writings of Wollstonecraft, or the political satire behind Jonathan Swift’s works. It can even be said that some essays have been written to bring across a moral lesson to the reader. Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey”, in which the main character is rescued by the Greek gods and then embarks on a journey to return to his homeland, all the while facing obstacles that test his faith, loyalty, and solidify his virtues and beliefs. Few authors have had the success Homer gained in his grand tale featuring the main character, Odysseus. Arguably, even fewer authors have tried to emulate the Christian faith within their works with much success. Mr. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is one such author. Coleridge’s lyrical ballad “The Rime of an Ancient Mariner” is one in which numerous religious themes are adequately complimented. Most notable of the comparisons is that of the Albatross and how it symbolizes Jesus Christ. In the ballad, Coleridge writes, At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God’s name. (Mariner, Line 65). In the ballad, the men on the ship had become lost, with mist, snow, and ice converging...
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...The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates the experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage. The Mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The Wedding-Guest's reaction turns from bemusement to impatience and fear to fascination as the Mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in the language style: for example, Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as personification and repetition to create either a sense of danger, of the supernatural or of serenity, depending on the mood of each of the different parts of the poem. The Mariner's tale begins with his ship departing on its journey. Despite initial good fortune, the ship is driven south off course by a storm and eventually reaches Antarctica. An albatross (symbolizing the Christian soul) appears and leads them out of the Antarctic but, even as the albatross is praised by the ship's crew, the Mariner shoots the bird ("with my cross-bow / I shot the albatross"). The crew is angry with the Mariner, believing the albatross...
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...In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the significance of the line on the equator is a defining point in which the climax takes place, and where interpretations of the text provides an understanding of the Mariner’s troubles. The line is a literal representation of the hero’s journey when he is passing back out again from his home to the South Pole. Without the line, one cannot see the dichotomy between the supernatural worlds, and the natural world, and the hero’s journey would be incomplete. The goal of this paper is to connect the significance of the setting of the line to major events that occur on the equator, and to the fate of the hero’s journey. Throughout the poem, the events occurring...
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...Summary In the beginning of the poem, an ancient mariner stops a passing wedding guest from the nearby celebration, although the Wedding Guest is reluctant to heed his words. Then, he starts to tell the story of the time when a storm hit his ship while he and his crew as out at sea, which was followed by snow and mist. Suddenly, an Albatross comes and the storm goes away, and the sailors on the Mariner’s ship worships it “as if it had been a Christian soul” (14). Yet, for no apparent reason, and although it has saved them from the storm, the Mariner shoots down the Albatross with his crossbow and kills it. Because of this, the storm once again shows up, letting everyone blame the Mariner for their despair and suffering. Once the storm leaves,...
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...Captain of my fate? “Death and Life-in-Death have diced for the ship’s crew, and she (the latter) winneth the ancient Mariner.” (Line 195). The Rime of an Ancient Mariner is a poem that narrates the story of a Mariner who, out of no apparent reason, decides to shoot an albatross when being in a ship-wreck with the rest of his crew in the South Pole. As a result, Death and Life-in-Death, two spirits that follow the crew to punish them, are to decide his fate, his life, to a game of dice. Entities beyond mortality gamble the future of a guilty, yet helpless man. Doesn’t this sound familiar? Don’t our lives seem, sometimes, the result of a game of dice being played by someone/something bigger than ourselves, even bigger than life itself? Just the fact that we are who we are is nothing but a result of chance. This statement, beyond its recklessness appearance, has an explanation consisting of three moments of existences that are determined by the roulette. The first one goes back to before we’re born. Have you ever thought of how many billions of chances were there when your parents’ genetic material mixed to create you? I, for instance, could’ve been blond, tall and smart. Or short and dumb. Or anything. But, somehow, I turned out to be me, out of what appear to be infinite chances of who I could’ve been. And this process follows no logic or intervention from our part: is the work of randomness. The second moment, chronologically, involves our environment. Where we’re born...
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...The Rime of the Ancient Mariner BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Argument How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. PART I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' He holds him with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship,' quoth he. 'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' Eftsoons his hand dropt he. He holds him with his glittering eye— The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner. 'The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea. Higher and higher every day, Till over the mast at noon—' The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose...
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...talk about both dreaming and life on Mars, but first I would like to talk about the history of Mars. In 1968, NASA struggled to get the Apollo program back on track in the wake of the devastating launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, that had taken the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. While the nation awaited the resumption of the race to the moon, NASA scientist quietly continued their work on the Mars exploration program. At the time, planetary scientists were still grappling with the surprising results of Mariner 4 – a small pile of photographs of a desolate, crater-pocked world that seemed incapable of supporting life. Mariner 9 would complicate the picture, revealing an active planet, with volcanoes, canyons, and channels apparently carved by catastrophic floods. With those discoveries, the prospects for finding life on Mars – or at least evidence of ancient life – would rise again. But in 1968, Mariner 9 was still three years away. NASA’s decision to launch a mission to search for life on Mars was made at a time when few believed there was any life to be found. The Greeks named the planet after Ares, the god of war. The Romans later renamed it after their god of war: Mars. Little more was learned about Mars until the Renaissance, which marked the dawn of modern astronomy. During the Renaissance, Mars played an important role in one of the fiercest intellectual battles in the history of Western civilization: the debate over whether Earth was...
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...| August | 26 | Introduction | 1 | | | 28 | Ancient interest | 2 | 2 | September | 2 | Stonehenge | 3 | | | 4 | Aristotle | 4 | 3 | | 9 | Ptolemy | 5, 6, 7 | | | 11 | Brahe, Kepler, Copernicus | 8, 9 | 4 | | 16 | Galileo, Newton, telescopes | 10, 11 | | | 18 | Terrestrial geology | 20 | 5 | | 23 | Terrestrial geology | 20 | | | 25 | Review | | 6 | | 30 | Examination 1 | | | October | 2 | Impacts | 12 | 7 | | 7 | Volcanoes | 12, 20 | | | 9 | Meteor Crater | 12 | 8 | | 14 | Meteor Crater | 12 | | | 16 | Lunar geology | 13 | 9 | | 21 | Old Mars | 14 | | | 23 | Lowell | 15 | 10 | | 28 | Science fiction | | | | 30 | Review | | 11 | November | 4 | Examination 2 | | | | 6 | Pre-Apollo | 16 | 12 | | 11 | Apollo missions | 18 | | | 13 | Apollo missions | | 13 | | 18 | Origin of the Moon | 18 | | | 20 | Mariner 4, 6, 7 | | 14 | | 25 | Mariner 9 | 19 | | | 27 | HOLIDAY | 19 | 15 | December | 2 | Viking | 19 | | | 4 | Review/term paper due | | | | 9 | Final (7:15 pm to 10:15 pm NSC 218) | | Instructor: R. Giese 711 Natural Sciences Bldg. Office hours: Tuesday-Thursday 11 am-2 pm email: glgclay@buffalo.edu Note that any email must have “UGC303” in the subject box; anything else will likely result in the message not being read Text: Exploration of the Solar System On line at UBlearns Examinations: There will be three...
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...Life on Mars Mars (Greek: Ares), our fourth planet in the Solar system, is named after the ancient roman god of war, Mars. People also called it the “Red Planet” as its surface if covered by iron oxide (loose dust and rock) which gives it a red bright rust colour surface appearance. During the Solar System's formation, Mars was created out of the protoplanetary disk. Also, Mars has two moons: Phobos and Deimos. Mars’ size is relatively smaller than our Earth and approximately half the size of the Earth; therefore, it takes longer to orbits the Sun (about two Earth years). Mars also has a surface area about the same as the land surface area of Earth. The Earth is about nine times more massive than Mars. Truly, there are some similarities between Mars and Earth which kept our interest to discover this mystery planet over decades. For example, Mars have a relatively thin atmosphere similar to Earth’s. Its atmosphere contains oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon, but proportionally different to our Earth. Moreover, it has similar observable features like volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar ice caps. Mars’ seasonal cycles are likewise similar to those of Earth as well. These integrated features give rise to our suspect about the past or existing presence of life and many more questions related to its history. As Mars is the neighbour of Earth, its history of ideas about the presence of life has been a controversy issue over decades. Therefore, the research...
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...Tennyson (Ulysses and Crossing the Bar) Presented by: Fatima Tawfiq ********************************************************** Tennyson Biography Alfred, Lord Tennyson, is one of the most famous poets in English literature. Many of his poems are standard of 19th-century literature and are critical and popular favorites. The body of critical work on him is immense, and although some of his work is seen as too sentimental today, his intellectual contributions to poetry and metaphysics are undeniable. Alfred Tennyson was born on August 5, 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, where his father George was a clergyman. Young Alfred began writing poetry at a very early age, and published his first work "Poems by Two Brothers" at the tender age of sixteen. In that same year of 1827 Tennyson entered Cambridge University, where he befriended Thackery and produced his second collection, "Poems, Chiefly Lyrical". He also met Emily Selwood, to whom he became engaged in 1839. The Selwood family objected to the engagement, partly because of Tennyson's lack of money, and partly because his brother Charles was unhappily married to Emily's sister Louisa. Tennyson poured his energy into writing, and his "Poems" of 1842 made him extremely popular. He let his doctors convince him to give up writing for a time because of his poor health, but the respite was temporary. In 1847 "The Princess" was another success, and two years later Tennyson married Emily in a secret ceremony. When William Wordsworth...
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...Leonardo's Mona Lisa AR115 Introduction to the Visual Arts Park University Mr. Trevis Martin December 2, 2012 Leonardo's Mona Lisa The tetragrammaton simply means "four letters," YHWH; which stand for the name of the God of Israel, and means "to be." The proper pronunciation and spelling was too holy to say or write that it was lost centuries ago and cannot be found in any ancient writings; therefore, Israelis substituted the name to Yahweh, or Jehovah, but only pronounce and write Adoni which means Lord. There are some things that cannot be explained, and this sort of story is not only found in religion, it can also be found in art. She is called The Mona Lisa, a most-beautiful "strange image [that] strikes at the subconscious with a force that is extremely rare in an individual work of art" (Sassoon, 2003). Her popularity is beyond comprehension and colors and lines too deep to express, and one's words are lost when one looks at her gaze. Paul Zelanski and Mary Pat Fisher (2010) explain that "the word 'art' cannot be found in any English dictionary before 1880 and that even when it did appear it was used primarily with reference to painting" (Zelanski & Fisher, 2010, p.13). Furthermore, the Oxford Dictionary defines art as "the skillful production of the beautiful in visible forms" (qtd. in Zelanski & Fisher 13). This almost sounds like an oxymoron; "beautiful in visible forms." How can one produce beauty, or better yet, how can someone...
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...Devry HUM 303 Entire Course (All Discussions+Assignments +Project+Final Exam) IF You Want To Purchase A+ Work then Click The Link Below For Instant Down Load http://www.hwspeed.com/Devry-HUM-303-Entire-Course-82382322147.htm?categoryId=-1 IF You Face Any Problem Then E Mail Us At JOHNMATE1122@GMAIL.COM QuestionCourse project This course will take you through huge chunks of human history from the Paleolithic era through the Vietnam War and into our postmodern world. Your course project will culminate in a nine-ten page paper. Your research paper will require a minimum of five academic-scholarly sources. Both in-text citation and an end reference page as specified by the APA style sheet are required. Scrupulous documentation plus high originality, analysis, insight, and fresh applications of ideas are highly prized. Mere reporting, describing, and finding others’ ideas are discouraged, and plagiarism is grounds for failure. Your paper is to be 70–80% original and 20–30% resourced (documented via turnitin.com). Details and milestones follow. Your final grade includes points accumulated for your discussions; proposal; a two-part annotated bibliography; a draft; and a final paper. The following are guidelines to assist you in completing the course successfully. Guidelines for the Proposal (100 points): A proposal offers a detailed and full description of your project (as best you know it at the time of writing) in no more than 2 pages. To succeed, students...
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...sentence. It is often used as a figure of speech in poetry, and even advertisements use alliteration in their tag lines to make the ads more memorable. Some examples of alliteration are: Don't delay dawns disarming display. Dusk demands daylight. - Paul Mccan Sara's seven sisters slept soundly in sand. ANASTROPHE Anastrophe the inversion of the normal order of speech in a particular sentence. It can also be said that the language is interrupted and speech takes a sudden turn. This is used for the purpose of emphasis. Examples of anastrophe are: Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. - Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart Why should their liberty than ours be more? - Adriana, Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare ANAPHORA Anaphora refers to a repetition of one particular word purposely, at the start of consecutive sentences or paragraphs. This is again in order to emphasize a point. Examples of anaphora are: I'm not afraid to die. I'm not afraid to live. I'm not afraid to fail. I'm not afraid to succeed. I'm not afraid to fall in love. I'm not afraid to be alone. I'm just afraid I might have to stop talking about myself for five minutes. - Kinky Friedman, When the Cat's Away Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner ANTITHESIS Antithesis is defined as an opposition or contradiction between two concepts in a statement. For...
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...Frankenstein Notes ------------------------------------------------- Some Interesting Points * There is a chilling logic in the creature's arguments. Why should he not respond in kind to the way that he has been treated by both his maker, who should have cared for him and looked after him, and by mankind as a whole? If the creature is inhuman, it is only because he is imitating the inhumanity of the human species. Therefore, I think that the novel presents Victor as being more inhuman. * Victor is alien in his society in the way that he removes himself from others, for example when he goes about creating the daemon/creation. Victor is very secretive and seems to like it that way... he doesn't really try to understand people like the creation does. The creation tries again and again to belong in the community, its his greatest desire. With Victor, on the other hand, there seems to be a gulf between him and the rest of society. * Justine’s trial testifies to the inhumanity of man. What is important to note is the way this links in to a vital theme of the novel, which is the presentation of the creature himself. He starts off innocent and wanting a relationship with his maker. It is the way that he is shunned by his maker and by humanity and treated cruelly that forces him into cruelty, but this cruelty is only paralleled by the monstrous nature of humanity as displayed in incidents such as the trial of Justine. We cannot expect the creature to be good when...
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