Discuss Coleridge's representations of the supernatural in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Introduction

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in the small village of Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, England. Father of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Reverend John Coleridge (1718-1781), was a well honoured vicar of the parish and principal of Henry VIII's complimentary Grammar Institute at Ottery. John Coleridge had three kids by his 1st wife. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the youngest of 10 by Reverend Coleridge's 2nd wife, Anne Bowden (1726-1809). Samuel Taylor Coleridge proposes that he "acquired no joy in sporting activities of boys" but alternatively study "continuously" and acted by himself. After the demise of his father in 1781, the then 8-year-old Samuel was moved to Christ's Hospital, a charity institute constituted in the sixteenth century in Greyfriars, London, where he stayed all through his puerility, learning and composing verses. At that institute Samuel Taylor Coleridge became acquaintances with Charles Lamb, a class fellow, and learned the acts of Virgil and William Lisle Bowles.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wont to be a innovator in the passionate time period along with William Wordsworth. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was genuinely ill back then and couldn't act anything related to it but acquire the opium to decrease the anguish, but at last he turned addicted to it he composed fewer verses then Wordsworth but they were as adept or still ameliorate than Wordsworth's. Coleridge delineates what he was anticipating or supposing when he was eminent or on doses. The aim is to empathise a well-written ballad.

Well-written Ballad is a large lyrical rhyme that is entailed to be babbled but established on an ethnic narrative (traditional). All ballads incline to broadcast a subject matter.

Features of well-written Ballads:

Vision.

Supernatural elements.

Exclusive case that occurs all of a sudden.

Sound effects:

Onomatopoeia.

Internal/ External Verse.

Repetition.

Refrain.

Beginning rhyme (Alliteration).

Vowel rhyme (Assonance).

The inclusion of super natural elements in the rhymes is a prominent passionate feature. It provides particular rhymes a supernatural ambiance by good feature of which the loving verse is frequently known as the “rebirth of admiration”. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is among the most distinguished of passionate poets who affected gently on all the distinguishes of poetical aspect, but he persists unparalleled in one domain of poetry - that is supernatural. Before Samuel Taylor Coleridge, supernatural element had implemented in English language literature (other than drama) in the exercises of Horatio Walpole, Mrs. Ann Radcliff and Monk Lewis. As contriving afresh book of verses to be collectively composed by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Coleridge attempted to address with the supernatural elements. As he himself assures us in “Biographia Literaria” (1817): “It was accorded that my efforts should be aimed to humans and characters supernatural or at the least passionate….” Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his masterpieces like 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Kubla Khan' and 'Christabel' has shown his matchless control in his handling of supernaturalness. He has produced the ambiance with his ruthless exception of rudeness and exclusive reliance on elusive implicative intends. The note that “the ...