The purpose of this seminar paper is to establish the relationship between man and the nature in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of The Ancient Mariner. ... As if the nature went mad about the Mariner and wants to penance him. ... The most important of all the elements for the Mariner is water. ... Both are alluded to in the lines: Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung. (141-142) Nature and God are alluded to together in this imagery, and the fact that "cross" and "Albatross" rhyme, beautifully emphasises this. ... The Mariner's return home can be i...

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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. ... His use of archaic language and regular rhyming couplets; 'damsel bright...silken robe of wh...

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