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..."The Ancient Mariner" presented the boys with a challenge they never failed to take up. The verse was All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. The boys used to emphasize the adjective in the second line, "but that is perhaps natural," remarks...

...Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) described the region graphically in his "Rime of the Ancient Mariner": All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. This...

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..."hope"; and as the mythical poems reveal, Coleridge's imagination provided him with little relief. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. — From...

...join the angelic strain. 5. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1 798 )' All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...bigger than the Moon. Day after day; day after day, 5 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every...

...prayers fiends — evil spirits averred — declared, affirmed And the Albatross begins to be avenged. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath...a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The very...

...on the mariner and his shipmates as the world of ice and snow is replaced by that of searing heat: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. This realistic and vividly visual image is also symbolic, as the sun is representative of God, but...