TOK Essay Reasoning and Emotions and the quest for Knowledge 19th century English philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that “deep thinking is attainable only by a person of deep feeling”‚ thereby implying that emotions‚ or “deep feeling”‚ play a key role in the quest for knowledge and the ability to reason‚ or‚ the ability to think deeply. However‚ day after day I am confronted with evidence contradicting his statement‚ and‚ although I do my best not to have biased perception‚ I do not see
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them. This is evident in the three texts‚ Go Back to Where you Came From a docu-reality show which aired on SBS in 2011‚ Alice in Wonderland a film composed by Danny Elfman in 2010 and This Lime-tree Bower my Prison a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797. Within each of these texts discoveries are shown to be sudden and unexpected or deliberate and planned‚ confronting and provocative‚ and lead to new values and stimulate new ideas. Various cinematic and literary techniques are used to help
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a very long romantic poem‚ written in 1798. A major facet of romantic poetry is the use of modern or accessible language. But that is not the case with this poem. Coleridge deliberately uses antiquated language. The poem starts off with a group of men going to a wedding. A Mariner stops one of them and the man replies ’by thy long beard and glittering eye‚ now wherefore stopp’st thou me? The Bridegroom’s doors are opened wide‚ and
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Different Traveler Like many of his contemporaries‚ Samuel Coleridge was interested in travel and travel books he read about exotic strangers in faraway places. As a young man he even joined a group planning a utopian settlement in the United States. The scheme was abandoned‚ staying in England living in the countryside where he attracted friends including the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy to join him. One of the
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consequences of his careless actions. Coleridge’s use of imagery illustrates the message that living in isolation and guilt can be worse than not living at all. Rime of the Ancient Mariner shows that death can be preferable to isolation and guilt. Coleridge writes‚ “And many men‚ so beautiful!/ And they all dead did lie:/ And a thousand thousand slimy things/ Lived on; and so did I.” (41). The Mariner talks about the tragic beauty of
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A Romantic Rime Romantic literature‚ such as The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge‚ involves the imagination. The story involves an old mariner who shares his tale with a wedding guest at a wedding procession. This poem is a framed tale since there is a story (of the mariner’s journey) within the actual story (mariner speaking to wedding guest). Also‚ the use of archaic language gives this work its Medieval-like flavor. The gothic elements‚ the appreciation of nature‚ and the emphasis
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But passion and party blind our eyes‚ and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern‚ which shines only on the waves behind us.” This is one of the famous quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). In his one of the magnificent work‚ “The Rime of the ancient Mariner”‚ Coleridge has been able to prove his quote mentioned above. The decision made by the young and excited Mariner to kill the albatross helping them and the consequences which was faced by the entire sailing crew
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Q. What are the thoughts that rise in the mind of Coleridge as he muses beside a fire on a frosty night in the poem ‘Frost at Midnight’? What is the future envisaged by the poet for his son? In this poem‚ ‘Frost at Midnight’‚ the poet expresses his fear in solitude for his baby‚ sitting beside a fire. ‚ “Frost at Midnight” relies on a highly personal idiom whereby the reader follows the natural progression of the speaker’s mind as he sits up late one winter night thinking. His idle observation
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price. In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge uses a combination of biblical allusions and supernatural elements to develop the theme that deepens the meaning of this poem. A prominent biblical allusion throughout the story is the albatross. The albatross shows up in a time of dire need for the sailors. For instance‚ “thorough the fog it came; as if it had been a Christian soul” (lines 64-65). From the beginning‚ Coleridge gives the reader a sense of the importance of the albatross
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What methods of characterisation does Coleridge use to portray the Wedding Guest and The Ancient Mariner? In part one of The Ancient Mariner‚ Coleridge introduces us to two characters‚ The Ancient Mariner‚ the main protagonist‚ and the Wedding Guest. Through their name‚ appearance‚ dialogue and actions we can portray a lot about them. From the title alone‚ being eponymous‚ we can infer that the events of this story will happen to the Ancient Mariner. His name especially portrays the mariner
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