"Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" "The

The ancient mariner describes what happened to him when he and his shipmates were becalmed in the water and he killed an albatross, a bird that is sacred to sailors and which must not be killed or otherwise hurt. Because he has killed this bird, the entire ship of sailors is condemned to death and to a ghostly encounter with a ship carrying the dead. Unfortunately for him, the ancient mariner is spared as Death and Life-in-Death throw the dice to see which will possess him. He has been condemned to move forever in the world of the living telling them of the curse that he brought on himself and accosting those who are in danger of doing something sufficiently terrible to render themselves cursed as well.

The message of Coleridge's poem is that men often arrive at a seminal point in their lives in which they are able to choose between an action that is clearly wrong and one that is clearly r

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the aristocratic style is Versailles Palace in which the Hall of Mirrors seems to summarize many of the central artistic themes of the Baroque with its emphasis on elegance, wealth, and human aggrandizement. Question 2. The Rococo and Neoclassical styles in visual art and architecture emerged as the Baroque era was coming to an end. In painting, Rococo is often described as an inconsequential version of the Baroque with what Sporre (433) sees with some justification. Some paintings display fussy details, complex composition, and some superficiality. This is not true of all Rococo works such as the paintings of Watteau, including "Embarkation for Cythera," which idealizes the social graces of the high-born classes. Aristocratic people positioned within a softly colored hazy, and somewhat fantastic landscape illustrates a deep poetic melancholy (Sporre, 434). In Rococo architecture, the emphasis is on interior design (Sporre, 441). In "The Pagodenburg," for example, French designer Jean-Francois de Cuvillies "combined refinement, lightness, and reduced scale to produce a pleasant atmosphere of grace and propriety (Sporre, 441)." There were nevertheless variations in Rococo architecture as is evident in the so-called G
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