1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge
... many have forgotten this. This is the fundamental moral that is expressed when Coleridge says the wedding guest became a "sadder and a wiser man." This idea is also set forth before the poem, in the epigraph by Thomas Burnet which is written in Latin. Translated, it reads: "I easily believe that the invisible natures in the universe are more in number than the visible. But who shall tell us ... all the kinds of themMan's wit has ever ... been circling about the knowledge of these things, but has ... ...
- Word Count: 1986
- Approx Pages: 8
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate