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CDeMarchi - S.T. Coleridge. Theory and Practice
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Up to 5 B. Romanticism. First Generation. S. T. Coleridge. Theory and Practice
1. A)The first part of the ballad begins with an ancient mariner, who meets three gallants directed to a wedding-party, and with his skinny hand he withholds a guest.The bright-eyes of the mariner captures the attention of the guest, which even if it feels the merry din of the party, he listens like a child of three years the mariner’s story.The mariner’s story speaks about a ship that have travelled from the South Pole to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean. The ship pushed from the storm arrives to the South Pole, where life forms were not seen but everywhere only ice. In this point an albatross arrived from the fog, which carried to the sailors fortune until when the old sailor killed it. B) I can identify two storylines : the wedding and the mariner’s story. 2. A)The mariner is an old man with skinny hand ,a grey beard and bright-eyes. The portrait doesn’t very detailed.B) the old mariner is not real because the ability that it has to attract the attention of the guest is not a real human quality. 3. A)the background is :in the first part calm and luminous, the mariner is stopped on the description of the sun from the dawn to the noon. In the second part, instead, it is anticipated cold, dark and snowy for the arrival of the storm.B)the elements of the Nature that are personified are: the sun,” out of the sea came he !”, the storm “ was tyrannous and strong” , the ice, “ it cracked and growled, and roared and howled”.C)the nature is presented in a symbolic way, because represents the feelings of the mariner . 4. A)the contrast between reality and the supernatural is most striking in the end of the first part of the ballad. In this part the writer introduces the figure of the albatross, real animal but that in this case it is symbol of salvation in a religious vision, he is killed by the sailor. The dead of the big bird interrupts the story , but the event makes a reflection of the reader about exactly the contrast between reality and supernatural.