Tintern Abby and Ancient Mariner
Compare and Contrast "Tintern Abbey" with "Ancient Mariner""The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return" This was sung by Nature Boy and I feel like it connects fairly well with Wordsworth's Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey and Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. How this quote relates is because in relation to these two poems it is saying that if you love something and care for it than it will do the same to you. In Tintern Abbey this thing would be nature. Nature does so much for us if we respect it. By destroying it we are only hurting ourselves in the end. This is essentially what the character in the poem is saying. He realizes when looking at his sister reflect on this area how important it is and how wonderful it is. He realizes how much it has done for him. He has many memories from Tintern Abbey and it had brought him so much when he was a young boy. In The Ancient Mariner this thing that must be loved is the Albatross. There is no reason for which the mariner should have killed the Albat
I definitely think that the overall message of these poems is fit by the words of nature boy, "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return." I know that the man who visited Tintern Abbey felt this way by the way he was reflecting on the nature which surrounded him, and I hope that the mariner learned this lesson through his horrific travels at sea which were brought upon him. The Hermit in The Ancient Mariner was like a monk, away from everybody and very in touch with himself. In this poem the hermit is a very powerful creature. When he comes along things become better again. The ship sinks and the sin of killing the Albatross is forgiven and forgotten. The hermit has a very innocent and free soul, which is evident by the power he has and how he is able to relieve some situations and make them better. ross, just like there is no good reason to damage nature. By killing the Albatross he was performing something very anti-Christian which in turn will bring upon equally horrible things in his direction. The Albatross is
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