Tear Drops, My Escape

 

My life full of misery helps me become what I am
All those moments of sadness as I am alone in a dark room
Only make me stronger
I let myself know crying is my form of escape:
 Soft, silk skin
That seems to be full of life
Yet endless misery is what feeds the heart

As I gather to the beginning of my journey I ask myself
Why do I have to be a carrier of pure sadness?
Why do I have to stain this sacred face with agony?

However, I realize that is not my reason for creation
I am who gets rid of the undesired pain
Rolling down the cheek, I feel a chill
A silence that kills me,
I wish I could scream that everything will be okay
But how?
There’s no escape to what I am living through
Nothing but myself makes all be better

My salty taste is regretful
My wetness is purity
My feeling is sincerit
Once I fall from the cheek
Into the unknown
I know I have let the pain out
The end to my journey has arrrived.

Looking into the distance I seek myself
After all those tears
I find myself
Where have I been all this time?
Was I a lost soul?

My face, a storm
Who destroyed my smile
Those lips that opened and showed the bright joy of life

All this destruction created
A better me

A different me
One who understands crying is okay.

Transformation, Faith, and Devotion

Reading "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" with different aspects opens the mind to different interpretations with themes Coleridge trys to convey to the audience. Although there are several themes that are acknowledge throughout the poem, a few of the most significant are transformation, faith, and devotion.
The mariner and the wedding guest go through major transformations that change their lives with the event they live through, either physically or imaginatively.
Faith, not something the mariner first realizes he possess of is outputted as he lives through a horrific event after being so delighted and happy. Not caring, he shoots and kills an albatross which will later be his curse. "For all averred I had killed the bird That made the breeze blow." While everyone else in the ship dies, he is left to suffer life-in-death. That is where faith comes back to him because he wishes he went not on with this situation. "Ah wel-a-day! what evil looks Had I from old and young! Instead the cross the albatross About my neck was hung." The albatross he killed with no regret now filled the empty space he had on his chest. Like many who are devoted into a religious surrounding and carry a symbol of faith, this too did the mariner wish to do. "I looked to heaven and tried to pray But or ever a prayer had gushed, A wisked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust" indicates his seeking in other ways to show faith.
Devotion is put in perspective along with faith to show the transformation the mariner goes through in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Blake's Prophecies Revealed

Looking through the list of blogs my fellow classmates have done thus far, I was impressed and interested in finding out what "Blake's Prophecies Revealed" created by Edde Diaz, Makenna Childers, Alex Pinzon, and Hanh Tran was about. At first glance, I was impressed with the layout that was used for the blog posts. The layout alone, marks a strong impression that without a doubt, the blog post support it. Thus making it easily for others to learn about William Blake and his peices of work that marked the great time period of Romanticism. Not only does it provide information but the pictures create a better understanding on what is being conveyed.

I also found very helpful the diversity the blog. It reveals different poems William Blake wrote, ones that I may not have read about and understood without the help of this blog.

I was astounded with Edde Diaz's prose poem because it describes a place and feeling that many are ignorant of. I can connect to the prose poem which makes me want to repeadily read it over because I can connect to it.

 

For anyone who is interested or curious to learn about information we are not always exposed to, this blog serves as reference to educate about a significant figure in the Romanticism period.

A Sadder-Wiser-Man

Without a doubt one of the most affected in the poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is the wedding guest.
Since the beggining of the poem, the wedding guest first starts to appear which bring great emphasize to the importance of him.
In the beggining, the mariner at the wedding pulls him aside to tell him a story. Although he may not wish to hear what the mariner has to say, he has no other option but to listen. "The wedding-guest sat on a stone, He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed mariner." This passage shows that they wedding guest is now in the possession of the mariner. Coleridge compares the wedding guest to a child as indicated in this passage "He holds him with his glittering eye- The wedding-guest stood still, And listens like a three years' child: The mariner hath his will" which is also a key point to the end of the poem.
After the brief yet powerful introduction of the wedding guest, the mariner starts to tell his story. The poem is followed by the story. Toward the end, the guest reappears once again.
Thus after all these events have happend it is affirmed that the wedding guest has taken in knowledge that dramatically changes him as a human. "He went like one that hath been stunned And is of sense forlorn; A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn." The wedding guest has taken in what the mariner has told him, and input that knowledge in to what he is after this all happen.
Maybe the wedding guest was the type of person who took everything for granted and needed a change in his life. There are instances that change a person, and this was one of the cases. This may have been a point of reflection to what he used to be or maybe a prevention to change his way of thinking before it was too late.
Another part of the poem that strikes the attention happens with a correlation towards the beginning and the end. Towards the beginning when the mariner wants the attenting of the wedding guest, Coleridge mentions the mariner "He holds with his skinny hand, 'There was a ship', quoth he; 'Hold off! Unhand me, grey-beard loon!' Eftsoons his hand dropped he" Coleridge even draws out the mariner with glittering eyes. Towards the end it just mentions "the mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone; and now the wedding-guest Turned from the bridegroom's door" which indicates a change in the mariner. This demonstrates not only a change in the mariner, but also the change the wedding guest also goes through.

 

One of the most significant symbols in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", is an albatross. It first appears when the mariner starts exposing the story to the wedding guest as so "At lentgh did cross an albatross, Thorogh the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God's name." Not only does it start to appear, but it does as a religious symbolism, a symbol of faith.  

Wedding Celebration & Ship

    

      In the poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", the mariner reveals a horrific story to a guest at a wedding reception. Why? Indeed it is not just a coincidence, but rather one of the many dualities Romanticism poets used in order to express realities. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" starts its first lines at a wedding and then progresses to the actual "story telling" which is at a sea with dreadful events. "Mayst hear the merry din' '' Merry, nothing less than sounds of joy, laughter and happiness. "The ship was cheered, the harbour cleered, Merrily did we drop". The wedding guest may not know what he will be exposed to,however he has no option but to listen.
     The ship where the Mariner lived the worst of times, exposes life and death. It may not seem as so, yet it sets the mariner has gone through and seen the lives of those that accompanied him fall one by one. The ship move not one bit as all disasters happened. His lips pleeded death as he was the only one who survived. In the beginning of the poem at the wedding reception it read "The sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he; And he shone bright, and on the right Went down into the sea." Later, in the story of the mariner it read "The sun now rose upon the right, Out of the sea came he; Still hid in mist, and on the left, Went down into the sea." This changes the plot.

     Both the wedding reception and the setting of the Mariner's story contrast although they both take place on a ship. One, joy surrounds and the other day, agony. This enhances the feeling the poet trys to convey which lies within a person's interpretation and depth analysis. To me, comfort and fear come to mind as the sudden change in the Mariner take place. When the poem first starts no sense of fear comes into mind, just tranquility. "The wedding-guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear" sparks the mind that comfort and tranquility will no longer be the emotions one will live.