It is well known that Coleridge began a drug habit as a child and severely debilitated him later on in life ("Poetry Foundation"). The poem speaks of strange mystical creatures, slimy things and brilliant colors. There is even a conversation going on between two beings (angels?) that decide that the Ancient Mariner will continue to repent for his sin. The poem has a very supernatural element, similar to that of the Greek adventure “The Odyssey” The ghost ship that floats in without wind houses “Death” and “Life in Death”.
Therefore, at the start of this section, Coleridge uses the frightened narrative voice of the wedding guest to express the mariner’s supernatural appearance. As the section progresses, Coleridge uses ambiguous description to express the hellish experience of the mariner, having been disconnected from the divine. The repetition of ‘alone’ creates a sense of the mariner’s isolation in this ‘rotting sea’ after his shipmates have died. Coleridge described the ‘thousand slimy things’ which are the only living creatures left with the mariner after the death of his crew. The ambiguous description of them as ‘things’ suggests that this world is so supernatural that it cannot be described in detail.
The sailors dropped dead one by one after the two characters on a passing ship finished playing a game of dice. After they dropped dead, they all stared at the Mariner with an evil eye. “'I fear thee, ancient Mariner! / I fear thy skinny hand! / And thou art long, and lank, and brown, / As is the ribbed sea-sand.
But the Mariner escapes his curse by unconsciously blessing the water snakes, and the albatross drops off his neck into the ocean. In the poem, I think the Albatross represents Nature, but it means nothing to the Mariner. What’s more, a ship followed by an albatross is generally consider an omen of good luck. When the Mariner kills the symbol of Nature, which is regarded as an act that will curse the ship, Nature quickly changes and began punishing him. He is then tortured by the rays of the sun and mocked by the sight of water that he could not drink.
Continuing to gaze upon the dagger, he thinks he sees blood on the blade, then abruptly decides that the vision is just a manifestation of his unease over killing Duncan. The night around him seems thick with horror and witchcraft, but Macbeth stiffens and resolves to do his bloody work. A bell tolls—Lady Macbeth’s signal that the chamberlains are asleep—and Macbeth strides toward Duncan’s chamber. Summary: Act 2, scene 2 Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.
This act of killing the bird invites the wrath of the supernatural spirits who then pursue the ship. These supernatural spirits subject the crew as well as the mariner to a series of excruciating events. The ship is lead from ice to uncharted waters, where the sailors are tormented by thirst. As a reaction to their pitiable state, they blame the mariner and hang the corpse of the albatross around the mariner’s neck. Hopes of salvation run high when everyone on board notices a tiny speck which they imagine to be a ship.
In shakespeares, ‘the tempest’, there is a monstrous spirit of the earth called caliban. He is presented by Shakespeare as both a villan and a victim. Calibans history began when his mother, the terrible monster sycorax, was outlawed to an island from argier, for practicing dark magic.caliban roamed he island alone, until one day aman and his daughter arrived from Milan. They lived together in harmony, until caliban – deeply in love- abuses Miranda. prospero was furious, and traps and enslaves him.
Mini Commentary Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light As under a green sea, I saw him drowning Wilfrid Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est In these two lines from his poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfrid Owen compares experiencing the poison gas used on the battlefields of World War I to drowning in a vast and overwhelming sea. Through the thick haze of gas, Owen, narrating as a soldier, “dimly” watches one of his comrades dying. The image, obscured partly by the fumes, is murky and distorted – as though he viewing it underwater, but it is nonetheless very much present. Water imagery features prominently in this extract. The narrator first uses a metaphor comparing his cloudy vision on the battlefield to “misty panes” and then uses the simile “as under a green sea [I saw him drowning]” to describe his friend’s death.
It is said the beautiful Sirens use their enchanting voices to lure sailors and make them die. Their beautiful singing will make men forget directions and shipwreck on the rocky coast. Sirens can be found in many Greek stories, especially in Homer's “Odyssey”: “But the sirens charm with their pure song, sitting in their meadow; the shore is full of bones of rotting men, with the skin shrinking around them (Odyssey. I2. 44-46)” Every man who hears Sirens’ singing will have to die, so it is hard to know what Sirens sing from those dead men.
The narrator also repeats the line, “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.” This, along with the reference to God, Satan, and Seraphim, mean that getting “into bed” with the man the narrator was speaking to was a sin, and therefore they never married. When the narrator tries to sleep, “All the world drops dead,” which could represent nightmares and visions of hell because she feels guilty for her sin. Plath uses repetition to emphasize certain phrases so the reader can decipher the true meaning. Another device the author uses is personification. In the second stanza the narrator describes “the stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in.” Clearly, stars can not waltz and blackness can’t gallop.