The Arrival of the Bee Box and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner :: English Literature

In The Arrival of the Bee Box and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner,comp ar the ways in which the choice of language, specific and the form,tell us about the feelings of the writer.In both poems, a range of literacy devices are used in order toexpress the feelings of the writers. Plaths poem is written besidesto the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and yet they are different in manyways. Plath wrote her poem in 1962 and Coleridge wrote his poem in the1700s or early 1800s, and the style of penning differ, as Plathswriting seems to be more emotive, whereas Coleridges work seems tohave a more a gothic theme to it.One of the main literacy devices used in both poems is the ext abateedmetaphor. Plath uses the metaphor to show the box as a attribute of herlife and how she wants to escape from it, but cant because of theconsequences. The box is locked, it is dangerous. I think she feelstrap within her life and the depression of everything is getting toher. She wants to get out and experience o ther things, but feels thatshe has created her life and therefore must live with it, I logicalthis, this clean wood box/ I have to live with it overnight Possibly,this could be related to part of her past, where she tried to commitsuicide, in order to end her life, so that she can be free of the box.In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, there are many metaphors withinit. As the boat travelled on its course, it came across some ice andit got stuck there. At that time the Mariner didnt know what to do.Then an Albatross came to the rescue and it cracked the ice so themariner was satisfactory to carry on his journey, at length did across anAlbatross/thorough the fog it came / As if it had been a Christensoul, / We hailed it in Gods name. / It ate the food it neer hadeat. / And round and round it flew./ The ice did split with a thunderfit/ The helmsman steered us through I think the ice was a symbolfor the limitations in life, and the barriers Coleridge has comeacross in life and he ove r come them. Also, maybe the ice was a symbolof the dangers that come with life, and once they are dealt with, youcan move along safely.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is written in loose, short balladstanzas usually either four or sextet lines long but, occasionally, as