Premium Content The Mariner's Ancient Eye: Multiple Perspectives in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By A. Neuman - April 14, 2003
In a revision of his enduring poem Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Coleridge added a pointed Latin epigraph, perhaps to clarify what he hoped the poem would convey upon his readers. The added lines ask us to reevaluate our perceptions of man and nature, as what is easily perceived by man is far from the full truth. The epigraph seems to be a…
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