... , from what ideology will mankind decree as absolute truth; or is mankind even subjected to a faith belief in either? Mankind has striven to explain itself as a "being" and its world of experiences since the days of ancient Greek philosophers. Renowned men from Socrates to Aquinas contemplated the world over in a question/answer dialogue deliberating ideas of man, gods or God ... , and the relationships to the seen and unseen. It was not until the "age of enlightenment" that derailed a held belief in an Intelligent Designer and that Designer being God, the God of the ... correlation to o...

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... 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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