ENG 207: The Romantic period

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What you have understood by The Rime o the Ancient
!ariner"
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Time duration o romantic period &as )7+, to )+-2.The beginning and ending
time of romantic period are identified differently by various scholars, though these dates
always agree with literary, cultural, political or social events. There are six famous poets of
romantic period; they are Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, helley, and !eats.
#.T. %o/eridge and Wi//iam Words&orth &ere good riends. Together they
&rote their beginning boo0 o romantic period Lyrical Ballads. Wi//iam
Words&orth &rote Natura/ism and #.T. %o/eridge &rote supernatura/ism.
#.T. %o/eridge &as born on 1ct.2)( )772. 2e had given one theory that is
Death and Life-in-death. 2e emphasi3es on the re/ation bet&een human
being and other anima/s in his a// poems. 2e be/ieves i human beings do
not /ove the creature o God nature &i// become tota//y change and
sometimes it may become harmu/ because God /oves his a// creatures.
#upernatura/ism means dis4orderness o nature. 5n Nature a// e/ements are
interdependent. 5 anything destroys everything &i// be change.
The Rime o the Ancient !ariner" is a supernatura/ism poem by #.T.
%o/eridge. 5n this poem he has sho&n importance o the re/ation bet&een
human beings and other anima/s. 2e a/so has sho&n ho& nature became
change ater 0i//ing the creature o God. $y this poem he &anted to say us
that /ove or creature o God is very important because God /oves his a//
creatures. 5n this poem he has sho&n ho& mariner had passed his /ie by
su6erings and got punishment by 0i//ing the innocence bird Albatross.
5n The Rime o the Ancient !ariner" the mariner and the ship /et seaport
but sudden/y the ship sai/ed do&n near Antarctica to get a&ay rom bad
storm and then they had a//en in danger( oggy ice 7e/d. #udden/y one
innocence bird came as blessings or them and it had provided good
&inds.
8irst o a// everyone addressed this bird as a symbol of God and had given
ood or that bird. The bird cou/d eat ood very 9uiet/y. Through this bird
the &eather had become started very c/ear &as ca//ed Albatross.
Ater e& days the mariner thought this may become harmu/ any day
that is &hy he had decided to 0i// the bird then he shoot the bird.
Ater 0i//ing the bird the &eather had became very hot and they ran out o
&ater. Every sai/or had become 9uite /i0e dead bodies. The dec0 became
horrib/e to mariner because it &as u// o dead bodies. 1ne day mariner
sa& one ship ar rom distance. 2e &anted to shout but he cou/d not shout
because his mouth had become too dry. 8or the purpose o &et his /ip he
suc0ed his o&n b/ood. 2e rea/i3ed his error and had decided to hang dead
bird around his nec0.

Water( &ater( every &here(
And a// the boards did #hrin0:
Water( Water( every &here
Nor any drop to drin0
$y these our /ines the mariner has to/d in every&here had &ater and
&ater but any drop o &ater &as not possib/e to drin0. The mariner &as in
ship a/one in one moon/ight night. 2e &anted to pray but he &as unab/e to
pray. ;nder the shado& o ship he sa& some oi/y things and these are oi/y
&ater sna0es. $y seeing these harmu/ sna0es he e/t sympathy or them
unconscious/y.
$eyond the shado& o the ship(
5 &atched the &ater4sna0es:
They moved in trac0s o shining &hite(
And &hen they reared( the e/7sh /ight
8e// o6 in hoary <a0es.
$y these /ines the mariner has e=p/ained moving sty/e o sna0e created
/ight in &ater. 8or his sympathy he had become ab/e to pray and dead
a/batross dropped o6 his nec0 into the ocean.
The se/4same moment 5 cou/d pray:
And rom my nec0 so ree
The A/batross ee/ o6( and san0
>i0e /ead into the #ea.
The mariner rea/i3ed every e/ements o nature is very important to
orderness o nature. 2e a/so rea/i3ed God /oves his a// creatures. Every
human being &i// sho& /ove or the creature o God.
2e ?rayeth best( &ho /oveth best
A// things both great and sma//:
8or the dear God &ho /oveth us(
2e made and /oveth us.
$y these /ines it is c/ear that God ma0es us and he /oves us a//.
!y opinion about this poem is &ith /ove God has made his a// creatures
and he /oves us a//. 5n this &or/d every e/ements are interdependent. 5
anything changes the nature &i// change tota//y because &ithout anything
it is impossib/e to /ive another thing. Everything is very necessary to 0eep
ba/ance o nature. #ometimes human beings are responsib/e or
supernatura/ism because they 0i// the creatures o God.
5n this poem the mariner had 0i//ed one innocence creature o God. 2e
thought about uture danger that is &hy he had shot the bird. At 7rst he
had no sympathy or the creature o God. $y the se/ rea/i3ation
unconscious/y sympathy or creatures o God in his heart that is &hy God
had orgotten mariner@s sin. When the &eather had become very hot and
on/y he &as a/ive( he rea/i3ed his error that is &hy he had decided to hang
the dead Albatross.
Thus God /oves us a//( it is duty o human beings to /ove his a// creature
because human beings and the nature@s every e/ements are inter4re/ated
and inter4dependent. We cannot /ive &ithout any e/ement o nature.
#o it has proved that the creatures o God are very beautiu/ and the
presents o God have in every creature. 5t is our duty to /ove God@s a//
creatures