Why The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Who Said I Was Right

Who Said You Were Right? Who Said I Was Wrong? The Rime of the Ancient Mariner perhaps one of the greatest/ most influential poems in English, leads to all of the greats, criticizing the poem. Samuel Coleridge uses an unique series of incredible events, including convincing and exciting ways of life. Although Coleridge went about this poem in a way never used before, he was spot on at writing it. As Bowra mentions in his excerpt, “Coleridge went outside commonplace of horror, widened its scope and created something much richer and human.” In contrast to what Bowra believe about the poem, poets have used supernatural characters like Coleridge did in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. However, I agree that, Coleridge did have a harder time at reaching his audience unlike Homer in the Odyssee and I believe Coleridge did make the Ancient Mariner, a character, the audience could relate too.

In Bowra excerpt he states, “No other poet of supernatural has quite done this.” When Bowra says, “this”, he means no poet has grasps supernatural powers actually affecting the character in the story. I disagree with that statement because there are numerous novels, poems and plays out there that do grasp this, “supernatural thing.” In Beowulf by John Green, I believe that he truly met the expectation for the supernatural. The character Beowulf, kills Grendel with his bare hands and Grendel’s mother with a giant mystic sword. Despite the fact that Beowulf kills these creatures, the journey he has to go on to get to them is unbelievable and in my opinion surpasses the definition for