...into his corner, and fell into the light slumber of age. Harry thought of the Ancient Mariner — " I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech ; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach." When they reached Salisbury, they drove...

...this frame of mine was wrench'd With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale, And then it set me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony...my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. (The Mary Shelley Reader, 286) "Transformation" begins with the protagonist...

...that poem is manifested by their presence in the opening page of his book The Drowned and the Saved: Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns,...my ghastly tale is told This heart within me burns, (w.582-585) The emotional charge of these verses may help understand how difficult it must have been...

...paradigmatic case. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at...ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. It is interesting to compare Coleridge with another great English poet, Ted Hughes. In 1999 Ted Hughes...

...hermit as it sinks. We are returned to the present day with the mariner explaining to the wedding guest: 'Since then, at an uncertain hour, / That agony returns:...ghastly tale is told, / This heart within me burns.' Coleridge makes the mariner express what he himself had felt for many years, speaking of everyone's...

...art thou?' Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched 660 With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: 665 And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to...

...And ever and anon through out his future life an agony constraineth him to travel from land to land, Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, ,s, This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I have strange power of speech;...

...to land, Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And tiU my ghastly tale is told, j8j This heart within me burns. I pass, like night, from land to land; I bave strange power of speech; That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must bear me: 390...

...But even more dramatic than this is the fever of the British imagination, the "uncertain hour" when "agony returns: / And till my ghastly tale is told, / This heart within me burns" (582-85). Coleridge was certainly nof alone in setting fever to poetry. In 1797, William Roscoe, a...

...man art thou?' Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched With a woful agony, Which forced me to begin my tale; And then it left me free. Since then, at...ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. shrieve — cleanse, purify manner — kind Forthwith — at once woful — -full of sorrow I pass,...