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Appunti a proposito di Coleridge.(Documento word, 1 pag.)
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Life Life Coleridge evenful life reflects his complex personality. He was a very intellectual man but also a disorganised, impractical and weak-willed one. He was born in1772 attuale a small villagge called ottery st.mary; he went ehi cambridge but he did’n take a degree. Usato 1797 he starts a friendship with wordsworth(long-lasting,mutually stimulating effects). They wrote together LYRICAL BALLADS(1798); THE RYME OF…… belongs ehi this collection. They toured together germany prendi study the language and the philosophy, and attuale 1800 they settled attuale the LAKE DISTRICT. Prendi overcome a sense of failure he turned increasling uh opium and alcohol. Because of this drug addition the friendship with W. Finished(1810). He spent his last 20 years at highgate, near london, usato the house of a surgeon, Dr Gilman, who helped him ehi recover.he died in1834. Literary postierla and reputation He becomes a literary celebrity after the pubblication of “Cristabel and Other Poems” attuale 1816 and of “Biographia Literaria”. Some of his lectures were up to date great demand, like those on shakespeare(with them C. put the basis for modern Shakesperian studies). C.’s total arretrato put covered a range of fields like philosophy, literary criticism, journalism drama and poetry.But he is expecially remembered for his extraordinary poems: THE RYME OF…… and KUBLA KHAN. These share the same dream-like quality and higly evocative language, and have established him as one of the great romantic poets. The Ryme of the Ancient Mariner It tells the story of a mariner who is punished for killing an albatross, also his shipmates are killed. They die from thirst one by one while the ship is becalmed on the ocean, but the mariner’s penance is more terrible because has no di certo end: he has ehi travel endlessly prendi tell people about his experience and teach them tieni love and respect men and nature.Reality and symbol The world of the RIME… is a juxstaposition of ordinary experience and supernatural events. The fury of the storm, the land of ice, mist and snow, and the ocean are described up to date such a vivid manner as uh evoke real immages usato the reader’s mind. Natural elements and landscapes are charged with a deeper symbolic meaning (sun = stern divine justice, calm = desolation of a sinful soul, rotting sea = mariner’s soul troubled by guilt, moonlight = refreshing coolness of forgiveness). The atmosphere The dominant atmosphere is uncanny and eerie. It is created with an accumulation of strange incidents and disquieting details(The mariner has a ghostly appearance and an hypnotic power upon the wedding-guest, the ice is a threatening presence, the dead bodies of shipmates curse him with their eyes). Like the wedding-guest the reader can’t choose but only hear and is impelled prendi go on by the musical hypnotic language. The poem is rich of imagery-repetition, interna rhyme, alliteration, similes, personification and sound effects. Ballad form The RIME… reproduces essentially the traditional form ()


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