can possibly be. Samuel Coleridge and Leo Tolstoy are two authors who discuss morality and give beneficial life lessons in their literary works. Both Coleridge and Tolstoy teach their readers life lessons by using cautionary tales. In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ the Mariner is the character that gives the wedding-guest in the poem‚ and readers‚ essential life lessons. The importance of Christianity and having faith is displayed in this poem when the Mariner says‚ “As if it [an Albatross]
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER The Moral of the Poem: It is usually thought that great art suffers‚ if its didactic purpose is over-emphasized. Everyone recognizes that didacticism has something very impressive and effective about it‚ but no one likes a moral to be offensively obtruded in a work of art. Some go even to the extent of thinking that art and literature should be content to give pleasure and should never set out to teach a truth or preach a moral. There are those who believe
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A PEACH AND ITS CORE --AN ANALYSIS OF _PEACH_ BY D.H. LAWRENCE 1100012705 叶子杰 What will you think of‚ when you eat a fruit‚ like a peach? I think many people’s answer would be nothing at all. However‚ a peach triggers some poetic romance in D.H. Lawrence‚ and some beautiful verses are thus created. The poem _Peach_ was brainless at first glance--this is indeed not an impenetrable poem‚ but it renders a significant thought that the creations of nature‚ even the most unconscious ones‚ has the
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is explicitly referenced early in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in one of Walton’s letters and also later in the text by Victor Frankenstein. Besides being directly mentioned twice in the novel‚ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner directly parallels Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in layered storytelling structure‚ mirroring of multiple characters‚ and the lesson of limitations with consequences. Both stories represent one prominent theme: isolation
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extract form the book ‘The Rainbow’ by D. H. Lawrence is taken from chapter 1. In the extract the writer explores the theme of human relationships and particularly the one between a man and a woman. He describes the wavery nature of love and fear of uncertainty through a third person narrative of Brangwen’s experience with a woman. The writer lays great stress on the ambivalent characteristics of such relationships and reflects this in the body of the prose. Lawrence is deeply concerned with his characters
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elements of his literary genre as if he would describing the parts of his body- the novel is alive and “whatever is me alive is me”. In a fantastic way‚ D.W.Lawrence shows his experience as a man and as a novelist‚ using great comparisions between people from different areas of knowledge( parson‚ philosopher‚scientist) and their views of life. He is very provoking‚ because he tries to impose his values and concepts without giving much importance to what the others will think‚ he does not care
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“The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence is a story with a fairy tale aspect‚ but it is not the only story he wrote that can be viewed this way. A closer look at “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter” shows the fairy tale theme too. Compare the story to classic fairy tales like Cinderella‚ Snow White or Sleeping Beauty and you will see a correlation. All of these stories share elements in common with “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter.” In the story Cinderella‚ the main character is a daughter that experiences
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"The Horse - Dealer’s Daughter" D. H. Lawrence The role of women in society is constantly an issue. D.H. Lawrences’s story shows through passive natures‚ obedient attitudes‚ and shattered egos a woman struggling to live her life according to her three verbally abusive brothers. "The Horse - Dealer’s Daughter" is about Mabel‚ who tries to commit suicide by drowning herself in a pond. A young doctor‚ Joe Ferguson‚ saves her. She then believes that he loves her. This idea was not a first thought
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ a text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge‚ uses repetition to demonstrate the despair of the ancient mariner. Coleridge uses repetition in the lines of the poem which helps readers to understand the despair that the ancient mariner feels. In Part 1‚ the ancient mariner is stranded with his sailors in an icy area where they cannot pass. The sailors grow weary due to the stagnant trip‚ where the mariner’s despair is seen by the description of “ice was here‚ the ice was there
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reading of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner will reveal that the Ancient Mariner-who is at once himself‚ Coleridge and all humanity-having sinned‚ both incurs punishment and seeks redemption; or‚ in other words‚ becomes anxiously aware of his relation to the God of Law (as symbolized by the Sun)‚ and in his sub-consciousness earnestly entreats the forgiveness of the God of Love (represented by the Moon-symbol). ... For Professor Lowes‚ while he has disclosed a Coleridge of amazing intellectual
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