ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lyrical Ballads, Pantheism
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Samuel coleridge and rime of the ancient mariner. Coleridge and wordsworth collaborated on the lyrical ballads. They lived near each other between early 1800"s. Coleridge influenced wordsworth by encouraging a belief in pantheism: the belief is that all f nature is infused with divinigty or that nature is identical with the divine. Words of pantheism: and i have felt/ a presence that disturbs me with the joy/ of elevated . Rime can be read as a mediation on several ethical problems: the problem of human motivation, the problem of evil, the problem of assigning quilt and responsibility. Form of the rime : ballad-popular verse form tat tells a story, often using frequent, ballad stanza. A slumber did my spirit seal/i had no human fears . It is an ancient mariner/and he stoppeth one of three/by thy long grey beard and glittering eye/now wherefore . : mixes a lyric and a ballad together. Doesn"t give the reader the entire story.
