... of the brothers (the sole survivor of six) experience similar sufferings, finally to return to the world as different human beings with changed views and new beliefs. Between the two poems, however, there are differences as well as similarities - the most obvious being probably intimately linked with the different dispositions of the two poets. While Coleridge fuses the natural with the supernatural ... , at one moment in the poem the Prisoner's desperation becomes so great that he sees even the sunlight as "a dull imprisoned ray" - light and darkness are brought together in a quite ambi...

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