Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1725 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Rime in Lyrical Ballads
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The idea
The volume opens with Coleridge's long narrative poem about an ancient mariner, printed in the archaic spelling of its first edition. A book arguing for the language of conversation opens with a deliberately antique poem, which is a tension worth noticing rather than resolving.
In practice
A deliberately antique opening.
Where people slip
A tension in the volume itself.
Your place on the trail
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