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The restrained balance valued in 18th century culture was abandoned in favor of emotional intensity, often taken to extremes of raptures, and nostalgia. The creative imagination occupied the center of Romantic views, which differed from the Victorian emphasis on p ....

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.... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner The significance of sighting the Albatross represents the first living creature the crew has seen, while stranded in the barren South Pole. When the Mariner shoots the bird, he is faced with judgements passed by his crewmates and natural obstacles that occur for minor periods, punishments passed by god are done mentally through the inability to pray and the death of his crewmates. “I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gushed, A wicked whisper came, and made my heart as dry as dust.” Lines 244-247 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner This curse provoked by his lack of res ....