Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is wrote in a way that
the reader is expected to temporarily allow him or herself to believe it to be
able to understand it. The poem itself is about a Mariner who is telling his
tale of sin and forgiveness by God to a man referred to as the "Wedding Guest."
The Mariner is supposedly responsible for the death of all of the crew on his
ship because of his killing of a creature which was to bring them the wind that
they needed to put power into the sails of the ship. The whole point of the
poem is to encourage or convince the reader to believe the tale that Coleridge
tells.
Coleridge wrote the poem as a means to induce the reader with what he
calls a "willing suspension of disbelief." The poem is written in such a way
that the reader is expected to willingly decide to temporarily believe the
almost unbelievable story. The reason a person is to make sure that he or she
believes it......

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Title: Coleridge's "The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
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