Annotative Bibliography Of Romantic Era Poetry

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Gerald Arenas Ms. Howell English 10 CPA February 25, 2014 Annotative Bibliography of Romantic Era Poetry Blake, William. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. 2010. Web. 2-10 24. January 2014. “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” is about Heaven and Hell. It questions if Heaven is as good as it seems, or is it deceiving us. Throughout the poem we see that the narrator is on the deception side. Firstly he states that the Bible is the causes of human errors. The narrator also feels positively about Hell, because he describes his walk in Hell as, “delighted with the enjoyments of Genius…” Finally, in the narrator’s imagination, he explains that he read the following sentence, “How do you know but every Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight closed by your senses five.” What the author is trying to say is that we commonly use the Bible as our religious beliefs, but it’s possible that the Bible is limiting how we perceive the world. Coleridge, Samuel. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” The Pennsylvania State University. 2013. Web. 27 January 2014. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” begins with three men walking to attend a wedding. One of the wedding guests’ hand gets grabbed by and old man, the mariner. After the mariner lets go, the wedding guest “listens like a three years child” to the story the mariner is about to tell. The story begins with the mariner and he crew out at sea. The mariner explains it suddenly got dark and they unexpectedly encountered a giant sea bird, called the Albatross. The Albatross was a symbol of good luck, but the mariner felt the need to kill it. The mariner did just that. Once the Albatross was slain the weather got clearer and the crew congratulated him for his... ... middle of paper ... ...ther example from “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” would be is sight of a “mighty Devil folded in black clouds”. “The Prelude” uses personification to further explain the potential of the earth. This can be seen from the quote, “Walk on this Earth” (148). It tells us the earth is powerful and it is also imagination, because the earth can’t walk. In “he Rime of The Ancient Mariner”, the author uses imagination to better display the mood of a certain scene. After the mariner shot the Albatross, the narrator sets a creepy mood by stating that, “The bloody Sun, at noon”. Imagination can be seen here, as the sun cannot be bloody. The author in “Adonais” uses imagination to further set the mood of the scene. “The shadow of white Death, and at the door.” (VIII) describes how scary death is and is imagination, because Death isn’t a physical person that can stand at a door.

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