And we were three - yet, each alone (The Prisoner of Chillon, III, 49) Alone, alone, all, all alone (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, IV, 232) These lines are taken from the poems of two virtually opposite writers, both of whom, however, reveal a deep interest in the effect which a person's (mis)deeds can have on his own life or on other people's lives. ... In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the Mariner has to bear the consequences of his own action. ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, II, 108-110 "T was still some solace in the dearth Of the pure elements o...

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Samuel Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem in which an "ancient mariner" accosts one of three men on their way to a wedding, and recounts a tale of his voyage to him. ... There are essentially three characters: an omnipresent narrator, the wedding guest, and the ancient mariner. The poem starts off in the third-person perspective of a narrator who tells of how the mariner and the wedding guest first meet, then the speaker is the mariner as he tells his story, and finally, the speaker is then the omnipresent narrator again. ... In "Slavery and the Romantic...

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This theme is prevalent throughout the Gothic genre, from the earlier poetry of Coleridge, Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98); through to Bram Stoker's popular novel Dracula (1897) and the striking late set Gothic text The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters are enticed by nightmare life in death, 'her lips were red, her looks were free'8. ... Unlike Dracula and Christabel, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a character based morality bal...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate