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Blake's "Holy Thursday" and Coleridge's "Rime of…
Blake's
"Holy Thursday"
and Coleridge's
"Rime of the ancient mariner"
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(Key Point)
Both poets show the theme of moral decay in their poems where Blake emphasises the moral degradation of the upper class and their lack of moral in their exploitation of the poor and Coleridge shows this with the Mariner who, for no reason, kills the innocent albatross.
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The primary purpose of this poem is Blake's questioning of the moral and social injustice in society. Blake fills the poem with rhetorical questions to drive his political message across to the reader, like
"Cold and usurous hand?"
where he foregrounds the lack of equality amongst the social classes. The act of
"usury"
is to lend money at unreasonably high rates and Blake uses this adjective to emphasise how, no matter how wealthy they are, the rich continue to profit off the poor, thus highlighting their lack of morality as they strip everything from those who have nothing. Alongside this, the juxtaposition of the
"rich and fruitful land"
and the
"land of poverty"
reflects Blake's own views about the prosperity of the country but the poverty of the children as well as the declining moral of society as their greed continues to grow.
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"redefined the albatross as 'moral burden' like the biblical millstone"
"The Mariner wantonly obliterated something that loved him"
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Introduction
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Coleridge therefore has the Mariner punished for his lack of moral in the action of killing the albatross as he suffers on the boat alone and Nature turns against him however, for Coleridge, the people who lack morality aren't the ones who are punished, instead it is the poor who cannot defend themselves who are punished for the immoral action of the upper class.
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"And their..."
"And their..."
"Ways are fill'd with thorns"
"water, water, everywhere"
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Conclusion
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Coleridge creates a link between morality and Nature
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"Sun does never shine"
"rain does fall"
"for the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky"
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