Though centuries divided them, Samuel Coleridge and Paul Simon both displayed their own tales of perseverance through their respective works of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" " and "The Boxer." ... In the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" the mariner himself retells his journey to a wedding goer, stretching his horrifying tale on for hundreds of lines. ... Also, the emotions of the mariner are emphasized to a heightened degree due to the personal trauma inflicted upon the mariner. ... In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner""even after the mariner is freed from his original curse on the ship throug...

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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...

• Word Count: 1986
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