Narratology in S.T. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities | ||
| Article 1, Volume 19, Issue 8, August 2012, Pages 638-651 | ||
| Author | ||
| Shubbar Abdul Adil Mousa | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is a poet, critic, and philosopher, who is one of the leaders of the English romantic movement. He is known for his theory of imagination. He believes that the poet has an important role in life, that he can be a teacher or a preacher to help the people realize the real message of man in this world and how man should be immunized by faith. In poetry his reputation stands on a small group of poems and on his "masterpiece of imagination, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, if he had left us nothing else, this poem alone would fix his stature as a great poet."1 Poetry and religion have similar points according to Coleridge, who believes that they show man the inner reality of life observing the moral values of the human beings. However this paper tries to examine in his poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, showing Coleridge’s treatment of narratology, and how he focuses on sin, punishment and atonement construing his religious realization of man’s role in life. | ||
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