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Journey in the rime of the ancient mariner
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The Wedding Guest in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
What does it mean to be wise? Webster's Dictionary defines the word "wise" as being "marked by deep understanding, keen discerment". Through the telling of the ancient Mariner's tale, the Wedding-Guest became sadder and wiser. He became sad in that he identified himself with the shallow and self-absorbed mariner. However, the mariner changed his ways. The Wedding-Guest became wise through realizing that he himself needed to alter his ways.
As the ancient Mariner described his adventures at sea to the Wedding-Guest, the Guest became saddened because he identified his own selfish ways with those of the Mariner. The mariner told the Guest that he and his ship-mates were lucky because at the beginning of their voyage they had good weather. The mariner only saw what was on the surface -- he did not see the good weather as evidence that Someone was guiding them. Also, when he shot the Albatross, the Mariner did not have any reason for doing so. The Albatross did nothing wrong, yet the Mariner thought nothing of it and without thinking of the significance of the act, he killed the bird. At this, the Guest was reminded of how self-absorbed he, too, was, and the sinful nature of man. At the beginning of the poem he was very much intent on arriving at the wedding on time. He did not care at all about what it was that the Mariner had to tell him; he did not want to be detained even if the Mariner was in trouble. Instead, he spoke rudely to the mariner, calling him a "gray-beard loon", and tried to go on his own way.
The Mariner began to see his own sinfulness and change his ways. As the Wedding-Guest listened to the story of the Mariner, the Mariner told him of...
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...r his ways. He was wise in that he listened to all that the Mariner told him and discerned what was being said -- that you need to be repentant for sins before a change can take place. If only the Wedding-Guest had learned this lesson a bit sooner, he might have lived his life differently in the past and, perhaps, that is what contributed to saddening him, making him realize that he could have done much more significant things for God. Nevertheless, he will heed the teaching of the Mariner and there is hope that he will do great things in the future.
We all sometimes get caught up in the things of this world and become absorbed in our own selves, and it is in these times that we, like the Wedding-Guest, need to hear the Rime of the Ancient Mariner to remind us of our sinful ways so that we can change and focus on the significant things that we can do for God.
The poem The Ancient Mariner is important to Walton because the sailor in the poem is going to polar regions and not respecting nature during its journey. The stranger is similar to the ancient mariner because they both have suffered tragedy, and now have a story as a result. The wedding guests in the poem can be related to Walton, while the unknown man represents the mariner. The author, Shelley, creates an enchanted and mysterious
Wisdom is instruction in wise dealings with others. Wisdom is instruction in righteousness, knowing the difference between good and evil. Wisdom is instruction in justice, knowing how to do what is right. It is the simple learning shrewdness so that they are not taken advantage of. It is the young learning knowledge and prudence. For both the young and the old it is an increase in skill, understanding and knowledge.
...n the sailors are swept by a storm into the rime. The ice is mast high, and the captain cannot steer the ship through it. The sailors confinement in the disorienting rime foreshadows the Ancient Mariner's later imprisonment within a bewildered limbo-esq existence. In the beginning of the poem, the ship is a vehicle of adventure, and the sailors set out in one another's happy company. However, once the Ancient Mariner shoots the Albatross, it quickly becomes a prison. Without wind to sail the ship, the sailors lose all control over their fate. They are cut off from civilization, even though they have each other's company. They are imprisoned further by thirst, which silences them and effectively puts them in isolation; they are denied the basic human ability to communicate. When the other sailors drop dead, the ship becomes a private prison for the Ancient Mariner.
... this is illustrated through the four stages of life known as the Ashramas. It is believed that once an individual has completed all four stages of life successfully the will then reach enlightenment. The Buddhist worldview has more of explanatory power because it primarily focuses on one’s morality by having multiple paths that an individual can take to reach nirvana. I believe that their worldview is plausible and is commonly accepted because every human being should strive to do the right thing by not being selfish, respecting others, not doing harm to others, being charitable, not lying etc. As far as existential viability, their worldview does a great job on assisting one in navigating through life. By assisting individuals to develop mental and moral purification, Buddhist are guiding one to be able to reach full enlightenment and live a life like the Buddha.
Tan, Amy. “Two Kinds.” Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing About Fiction, Poetry, Drama and The Essay.4th e. Ed. Frank Madden. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009. 253-261. Print.
What does it mean to have wisdom? Some may say to be wise is to have enough knowledge and good judgment to make well thought out life decisions. Wisdom is a common term mentioned throughout out the New Testament Epistles and the entire Bible. The Bible has a lot to say about wisdom and knowledge. It talks about ways to be wise and ways to be foolish. Through out the Bible there seems to be different types of wisdom and it is described in different ways. Analyzing all types of wisdom and knowledge will help us decide what the Bible means to be wise.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1798 along with three other pieces of work to create his famous Lyrical Ballads with William Wordsworth. The ancient Mariner is an old man whom has suffered a great tragedy, but managed to survive. The tragedy being he watched 200 of his companions die right before his eyes and then come back again. This is when he was cursed, the ancient Mariner was cursed for shooting an albatross. That is the point that everything turned for the worst for the ancient Mariner. In Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the Mariner must deal with his penance, a young man is stunned and becomes wiser, but sadder, and there is a lesson to learn from the entire story.
The Mariner, a tan man that is extremely old and malnourished with “a glittering eye” begins his story with his ship getting caught in a treacherous storm and being driven south towards the equator. As the Mariner is in the beginning of his story, the people hear the wedding bells ring. An albatross then appears and becomes friendly with the shipmates, the bird leads them out of Antarctica. The Mariner then shoots the albatross. After he shot the bird, his shipmates are aggravated with the Mariner, they believed that this bird was the miracle that lead their ship out of the South.
The concept of terrorism is exceedingly difficult to define. Author Gerald Seymour first said in his book Harry’s Game that, “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”. Each individual may view terrorism in a different light. Because of this, there is currently no universal definition of terrorism. However in recent years, it has become increasingly more important to form a definition of terrorism, especially while working in the media.
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The fact that the agony always returns is particularly horrible about the Mariner's punishment because no matter how hard he tries or how much he prays his sin is carried along within him. The pain of his sin goes away right after he tells his tale but it returns shortly afterwards. The Mariner says that, after telling the Hermit his story, 'Since then, at an uncertain hour that agony returns.'; Since the first time the Mariner confessed his crime to the Hermit at an inconsistent hour God reminds the Mariner of the sin he has committed by piercing his heart with agonizing pain. He tells the Wedding Guest that, until he tells his story, 'The heart within me burns.'; This is God's way of expressing his anger to the Mariner for the curse he put on his crew when he killed the Albatross. God makes sure that the Mariner has and will fell agony, that the agony will always return, and that the agony will return at an unsure hour each day which causes the Mariner to relive his tale and to live in agony for the rest of his life.
Burgoon, J. K. Buller, D. B. and Woodall W. G. (1989). Nonverbal Communication: The Unspoken Dialogue. New York: Harper & Row.
Terrorism is one of the most extensively discussed issues of our time and at the same time it is also one of the least understood. The term itself “terrorism” means many different things to different people, cultures, and races. As a result, trying to define or classify terrorism with one universal definition is nearly impossible. The definition of terrorism used in this research is a reflection of much of the Western and American way of defining it. The definition of terrorism is,
Throughout the poem, there are a number of allusions to the possibility that the Mariner is not altogether human and that while his life force may be sustained by a vengeance-seeking God, it may also be the work of a being far more ancient and potent that the God of Christianity. While it is clear throughout his tale that the Mariner is a pious and God fearing man and that he attributes his redemption to an acceptance of the value of all of God’s creatures, whether beautiful or ghastly, the supernatural figures that the Mariner interacts with within his tale have more in common with pagan, or even demonic spirituality than with that of Christianity. Coleridge’s marginal glosses make it clear that while the Mariner believes it is God’s wrath he is dealing with after his slaying the Albatross, as evidenced in the text of the poem itself, it is rather a Polar Spirit and those affiliated with the climates and elements of the earth that are actually seeking retribution for his
analogy for the Mariner's symbolic killing of the albatross” (156). Other critics do not concur with this view and according to them the punishment does not really justify the deed. According to them there is no redemption or restitution, but the punishment only aims to a world of chaos. Warren however argues, that this crucial part of the poem can not be just blatantly read without understanding, but must be seen as a crime made by mankind against the nature. He states: