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How Does Coleridge in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan' Show the
Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature and the Poetic Experience?

Coleridge expresses many thoughtful and rather intense ideas in his poetry,
through using either peculiar or common images of all forms of nature ie human,
environmental or supernatural. His poetic expression is unique in its use of
extraordinary imagery and transition of mood yet he what he creates usually
conforms to numerous literary techniques. The recurring theme in many of his
poems is that of man's harmony with nature, and this idea, combined with his
bizarre and even eccentric poetic expression provides a basis for both 'The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner' and 'Kubla Khan'.

Mankind, firstly, is explored in both poems by placing the human nature in
situations where perhaps instinct acts before reason. In RAM, the ancient
mariner kills the albatross not for need or in distress, or for any reason that
mariner can deduce the result.......

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