kaitywiggins posted on February 10, 2012 15:20
Please select ONE question below to respond to in your WT notebook. As always, evidence and reasoning should be used to support the ideas which need support.
13. Look at the relationship between confession, dead men, and guilt. What is the dynamic relationship here?
17. Death seems to mimic the living in this poem. Comment on this and cite a few instances.
18. How reliable is the narrator of the tale? Is the mariner still under a spell at the end of the poem? Are we, his audience, also?
19. Wordsworth, Coleridge’s friend and fellow poet, retraces through his memory of childhood in “The Growth of a Poet’s Mind” and frets about the deceptions of memory and the change of self:
The vacancy between me and those days
Which yet have such self-presence in my mind,
That, sometimes, when I think of them, I seem
Two consciousnesses, conscious of myself
And of some other Being (2:29-33).
The “other” or the concept of a “divided self” seems at work in the Rime, as well as in Frankenstein. Explore some possibilities here.
20. This poem is like a dream sequence. How? What does this poem suggest about the nature of evil in the universe? What does the Bible say about the nature of evil?