Both views seem to be offered alternately throughout the poem, which only adds to its complexity. ... The sufferings of the two men may be traced in both poems as going through several analogous stages. ... A parallel between the two poems may be drawn here: if we consider the crew of the ship as a family and the Mariner as being the eldest on board, Coleridge's poem presents us with pretty much the same situation - the family virtually dead with only the eldest member still living. ... He has made his first step through love towards absolution: he may have lost one family but in ...

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It is therefore unsurprising that the Coleridge poems, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber all display this theme, a breach of the character's moral and pious integrity in their desperation to satisfy their curiosity. ... Despite this however, Coleridge continued to remain 'defiantly supportive of prayer, praising it in his notebooks and repeatedly referencing it in his poems.'13 While Angela Carter's works still retain religious motifs, unlike other Gothic novelists, the theme of religion is not explored to the same extent as in Dracula and the Coleridge poems. ... As Wade Kim...

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