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Nasce dal sogno di un amico, durante una passeggiata con William Wordsworth, l'idea della "Ballata del vecchio marinaio", la vicenda fantastica della maledizione che si abbatte sull'equipaggio di una nave a causa dell'insensato gesto di uno dei marinai: l'uccisione di un albatros. Bilanciando sapientemente il mondo del reale e del soprannaturale, razionale e irrazionale, in un grande mito di mare e ghiaccio, espiazione e colpa, con la presenza di creature ultraterrene e forze misteriose che sospingono la nave e il racconto, il poeta si fa albatro nella metafora dell'opera, e fondendo romanzo gotico, letteratura di viaggio e ballata tradizionale, riesce a salvare se stesso tramite il potere dell'immaginazione nella propria creazione artistica. Recuperando la forma metrica della tradizione poetica popolare inglese, con un linguaggio evocativo e immaginifico, Coleridge compone una delle liriche manifesto del sublime romantico inglese, la cui poetica raggiunge, in questo volume, la sua perfetta espressione nelle incisioni di Gustave Doré, artista eclettico e poliedrico, in grado di incarnare coi suoi tratti cupi e angosciati lo spirito dei testi della letteratura coeva e non.
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- Pagine: 192
- Data di uscita: 12-11-2019
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So why did the Ancient Mariner shoot the Albatross? To me the answer is simple. He did it because he could; he did it because is he is a man, and that’s what men do: he saw something beautiful; he saw perfection in nature, and he killed it. That’s humanity for you. Sinning is easily, as quickly as a Leggi tutto
Who we start out as and who we end up as has always seemed to me to be the central point of this poem. One can often return to a physical place - but in the returning find that place lost - due to the way their journey has changed their soul. Looking for salvation one often finds that (in the findin Leggi tutto
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold:Her skin was white as leprosy,The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. When I did construction work this is what I always wrote on the inside of the Port-a-Potties, amongst all the other graffiti and a Leggi tutto
If all poetry books were like this, I would never read any prose. ____________________________________________ I was thinking about the Ancient Mariner just now, apropos Kris's review of Ice , and recalled an incident from a project I was once involved in. The person in charge failed to renew the contr Leggi tutto
A poem which heavily influenced modern Western culture Review of free Kindle edition A Public Domain Book Publication Date May 16, 2012 Language: English ASIN: B0083Z49HO 36 pages I hated this thing in high school. The homework assignment to read it was interesting but the pain began in the next day's clas Leggi tutto
149th book of 2020. Coleridge’s longest poem, comprised of seven parts. The language is lyrical and beautiful and the plot is forlorn and surreal—two of my favourite things. I never like to write the plots of novels in my reviews because they can be found quite simply on Goodreads or the Internet any Leggi tutto
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