The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Essay
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The poem is considered, today, as a standard paradigm of creative poetry, typifying the poetic theories of its poet. The poem has appeared in ‘Lyrical ballads, with a few other poems’ (Wordsworth & Coleridge, 1798); and, it describes, in both, its earlier and later version, an old mariner who relates his woeful story to a wedding guest whom he happens to meet in a village street.