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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Boxer

Also, the emotions of the mariner are emphasized to a heightened degree due to the personal trauma inflicted upon the mariner. An important example of this heightened emotion is the guilt and weight that the mariner feels after killing the albatross. This detailed recollection of his feelings in return weighs upon the reader and creates a sense of necessary redemption on both the reader and the mariner. This gives the guilt control over its inhabitants until the mariner can finally find relief. "The Boxer" also gives a personal retelling of a story, and fills the tale with emotions, with words such as scared, lonesome, anger, and shame. In using these words to describe personal experiences, Simon created a mood of despair within the poem, but also provides lifting perseverance and redemption through this despair when recalling the witness of a defiant boxer in the last stanza. Without the personal experience gained from the first person point of view in the majority of these pieces the sense of true and meaningful emotion relating to redemption would be lost.
             Although both Coleridge's and Simon's works share themes of perseverance and redemption, and the power that they hold, their themes contrast one another. In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner""even after the mariner is freed from his original curse on the ship through his determination, he is never fully redeemed from a second curse of guilt. The mariner is plagued by his need to convey his story to anyone one he can in order to redeem himself from his past sins. In this way, his need for redemption has power over his life - it controls what he does and how he lives. Contrary to this, in "The Boxer" "the young man struggling in New York rises above everything that was put in his way. The speaker tells of a boxer that "carries the reminders of ev'ry glove that layed him down," but continues to recall that the boxer stands tall and "remains.


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