Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a poem which forged the beginnings of the romantic era in which Coleridge lived. Whilst still containing vivid imagery characteristic of the romantic era, its ballad form and its internal archaisms reflect another more ancient period of literature, though no specific one. Part three of the poem entails the mariner recounting the crew's thirst and the sighting of the ship, which turned out to be a form of ghost ship which carried Death and the personified nightmare Living Death. Death and Living Death gambled with dice and Living Death won, upon which it instantly became night and the entire crew bar the mariner died, though not before cursing him with their eyes. The "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is overflowing with various poetic devices which serve to create the illusion of an historical poem and emphasise Coleridge's message, which is, in its simplest form, a romantic notion to love all of God's creatures.

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Title: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Romanticism
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