Explore the ways Coleridge tells his story in Part 3 of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In Part 3, the poem becomes more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Ancient Mariner and his fellow sailors. Although later in the poem Coleridge reveals that a specific spirit is responsible for their demise, it seems as though the spiritual world as a whole is punishing the men, using the natural world as its weapon: the wind refuses to blow, the ocean churns with dreadful creatures, and the sun's relentless heat chars the men. The ghost ship, however, is separate from the natural world - it sails without wind, and its inhabitants are spirits. Death and Life-in-Death are allegorical figures who become frighteningly real for the sailors, especially the Ancient Mariner, whose soul Life-in-Death "wins", thereby dooming him to a fate worse than death. Even those sailors whose souls go to hell seem freer than the Ancient Mariner; while their souls fly unencumbered out of their bodies, he is destined to be trapped in his indefinitely - a living hell.
To bathe at such an hour in such heat! You are burnt beyond recognition, ”he scolds his wife as if she was a child. (563, Chopin) The narrator also lets us know Leonce’s thoughts as he was, “ looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property, which has suffered some damage.”(563, Chopin) Even though this oppressive lifestyle might seem wrong to us, this is merely a result of Southern culture. Gwendolyn Ullrich states in her thesis, “Leonce and Adele are explicitly exemplified as products of their socialization; they unquestioningly and blindly accept and conform to the rigid, pretentious Southern patriarchal codes without realizing that these belief systems are actually manipulating and controlling their thinking, as well as their life styles. (Ullrich,9)” According to Southern society
The homesickness that these men undoubtedly suffered at that very moment is enough to make an observer of the photograph turn away, too weak to combat the powerful emotions that it instills. This particular photograph taken by Robert Capa during the D-Day invasion almost seventy years ago illustrates the raw emotions of war that those brave men on the beach were undergoing. His emotional appeal to viewers of this picture is a reminder of what they did, not only for our freedom, but for the liberation of whole continent under the boot of a ruthless mass murderer. Society today should honor the valor of that generation and note their deeds in order to make certain that what happened then will never transpire in the
The first lesson is terrible, and even though Berto had given specific details about the exercieses, Jon is still very close to drown twice which he describes as unendurable. "You are nervous under the water?" "and above the water" The lack of calmness makes Jon very nervous, and his probably afraid of dying. this is also possibly a reason why Jon drinks, to calms his nerves. Later at the reef.
On the oppose side of the marital spectrum, Zeena regularly professes her hypochondria to her husband. However, in response to the sledding accident, she “seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her” (Wharton 131). This ironic “miracle” proves Zeena’s addiction to martyrdom, emotionally dependent on first her illnesses, then to her vocational role. Although professedly unhappy, she relies on her marriage for a sense of purpose. In an examination of the constancies, it seems as though both wife and husband, woman and man, are reliant upon both one another and their marriage to function
“At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death. It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things” (Obrien 27). Another theme is fear of shame as motivation. Tim O’Brien experiences this himself when he is on the boat with Elroy. He decides to go to war because he is ashamed of running from it.
At one point in the Odyssey, the hero makes the decision to enter the cave of a cyclops despite his crews objections. His pride causes him to ignore his shipmates and it ends up getting him into so much trouble that it makes the cyclops' father, the god of the sea, furious. Since most of Odysseus's journey is made by the sea, this gave the sea god a chance to cause even more trouble for the hero and his crew. Kevin also showed his little streak of pride which gets him into trouble too. When Gary David relayed Gary's message to Kevin about being careful driving the truck over a rut, Kevin responds by hitting the gas as soon as they approached it.
“Swimming in a dirty river with dirty me you were very beautiful.” Nakayama uses repetition to make the audience focus on thought that he sees him self as “dirty” and how he doesn’t deserve her. Belonging helps us to search for our identity. On the other hand identifying and categorising your self you can know where to belong or where not to belong. And people tend to feel insecure when they feel that they don’t belong or when they feel that they are being judged. Steven Herrick, the author of The Simple Gift by and the Wasao Nakayama, the composer of Strange Chameleon communicate this idea through the text affecting the audience by using techniques as first person, repetition, and
Jimmy Cross understood this. You could blame war… A moment of carelessness or bad judgment or plain stupidity carried consequences lasted forever” (O’Brien 115). He tries blaming the death of Kiowa on the war, rain, God and concludes while the blame is some way universal, it is also intensely personal. Cross is the one who chose to camp out in the sewage fields despite the warnings of drowning in the field. Cross is most angered with Kiowa’s death because he was a good person and that it was him to blame for picking a bad spot to set up camp.
Having observed, in John Updike’s rendering, that the whole animal Kingdom is under the reign of mortality; we now see all of Nature as suffering fading and extinction as well. This poem is brief and very beautiful. It is fitting, in view of the relative importance of man compared to the importance of Nature, to make it shorter. The tone is gently uplifting and appropriately conducive to meditation, in view of the content, which is the theme of these two poetic works combined: we are a fallen species on a polluted planet where nothing gold/good is incorruptible or remains untainted, and if it did, it would still be