English 2307E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Lyrical Ballads
25 Feb 2014
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Samuel taylor coleridge: the rime of the ancient mariner. Mrs. barbauld (an early reader) she was a poet: she complained that the poem seemed to have no moral (and this seemed to bother her) It told us a complicated story about a mariner who goes out to sea, shoots an albatross, and then has to suffer the guilt for no particular reason: possible religious morals: (line 610) To love all of the creatures that god has made, great and small. The narrator constantly has to relive it by retelling the story and warning others feeling of incompletion) He is never finished telling the same story over and over again (a: the mariner himself doesn"t really understand the story and is looking for something in it. He looks at people with his one eye and tells them the story whether they like it or not good and evil)
