This poem gave me nightmares

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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a very odd poem to me. I did not enjoy reading this poem, but I can still appreciate it from a writer’s or poet’s perspective. I am sure we can all agree on Coleridge’s great success in placing vivid imagery into the reader’s mind with this poem, yet, when I first sat down to read this, the nature of the content took me by surprise. At times, I found that this poem was deeply disturbing, like when the Mariner decides to wet his lips and mouth by drinking his own blood so that he can call out to the other ship because he otherwise wouldn’t be able to do so as his lips were so dry from not drinking any water, or when everyone starts dropping dead one by one and lying on the deck of the ship as the souls fly from their bodies. These things personally sounded more like an episode of the walking dead then what I expected from this poem, which I find is in a way very successful on Coleridge’s part; I think one always enjoys a bit of the unexpected. Overall, I am still a bit confused on the overall meaning of the piece and am still trying to digest all the readings we were given, though I always find it fun being exposed to new things and trying to wrap my mind around it all. I feel that I enjoy reading poetry done in the style that Wordsworth describes. I find it much more simplistic and it holds a deeper meaning to me. Neither form of poetry is right or wrong, it just depends on taste. I didn’t quite like the taste of this one, but I’m glad I tried it.

P.S This poem was scary and I am a wimp and can’t handle anything scarier than Goosebumps, so that’s part of why I didn’t like it. Don’t judge me.
Update: I commented on Abigail and Natalie's post.

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  1. Ty GoramOctober 16, 2017 at 10:00 PM

    I found it especially odd as well. I enjoyed reading it, though not all of it was understood, but I appreciated the dark imagery placed into it. The poem DID sound a lot like a horror-like movie though, so I suppose that's a perfect read for this month.

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