Jackson Lo
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Sep 26
The Sublime Vast
“The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner” By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (lines 119-121) Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; water, water, every where, The repetition of water and the emphasis on “everywhere” creates a sense of vastness, which is one of the components of the sublime according to Edmund Burke. This stanza …