... . While Coleridge fuses the natural with the supernatural in a nevertheless vivid description of one man's suffering in the open sea where he is left at the mercy of the elements, Byron's description is much more realistic as a portrayal of a man who is going through great psychological torment. The settings also are very different - a ship lost at sea, at one moment hurled ... living. In both poems, however, there seems to be no explicit reason for him being alive; while Coleridge employs a supernatural machinery to emphasise the importance of the Mariner's remaining alive, Byron moves ...

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