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what did the poet write to describe how the ice looked?

 

sam c #212949
Nov 13, 2011 8:43 PM

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what did the poet write to describe how the ice looked?

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Aslan
Nov 13, 2011 9:44 PM

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The ice was a pretty ominous sign. Coleridge describes it as encircling them, almost enveloping them,

"The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!"

It almost seems like a frozen sea-serpand howling and threatening to crush their little ship.
 

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