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Cain?
cast into hell? forbidden fruit? opium?
slimy things I shot the albatross witchs oils, / burnt
green, and blue and
Slimy sea and I had done a white
the very deep did hellish thing
rot Phantasmagoria!
Purely inspirational? Dark gothic?
cursed me with his eye
poetry gives most pleasure when only generally
Life-in-death
and not perfectly understood"
spectre bark
- Coleridge
Many critics maintain, as Christopher Lamb does,
that the Ancient Mariner is a work of complete
and pure imagination. As
He was the
at glittering
a point in hiseye with itshestrange
life where was more
power
concerned with the rational than the empirical,
the
this poem polar
was spirits andofseraph
an exploration band
the former.