Premium Content The Symbolic Themes of Mystery and the Supernatural in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Anonymous - December 24, 2002
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," considered by many scholars as the quintessential masterpiece of English Romantic poetry, the symbolic themes of mystery and the supernatural play a very crucial role in the poem's overall effect which John Hill Spencer sees as Coleridge's "attempt to understand the mystery surrounding the human soul in a universe moved by forces and powers. . . immanent and transcendent" (157). Yet...
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