... white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips... I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips'5. Here, the apt use of a provocative lexical field accentuates their sensuality, alongside powerful erotic adjectives such as 'voluptuous' and & ... the reference to 'vespers', emphasizes the Mariner's fall to temptation when 'with my crossbow, I shot the Albatross'. This sudden introduction of death foreshadows the trials of the remaining journey, forcing, as A.J Harding states, 'natural phenomena to work on his...

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