... . If maintained, this union is believed to produce the condition of joy. Both William Wordsworth's poem "Resolution and Independence" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of The Ancient Mariner" illustrate the ways in which human beings can forfeit or lose this joy and also recover it. ... the loss of joy that Wordsworth experiences. While at first Wordsworth's inward trap does not seem prideful, the completely careless act of murder performed by Coleridge's main character, the ancient mariner, is visibly rooted in arrogance. The ancient mariner confesses in a flippant and careless wa...

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