THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

We can see that Samuel Taylor Coleridge intensively used religious images in the work because he was a catholic. It is an unique work that tells us we should love all living being including albatross and enable us to think in different ways, I think.

Also Steve Harris has made a song for the work. It is 13 minutes 35 seconds, very very long. People who are not aware of value of works like this like me can be really bored when they listen it.  I wish I could love this kind of works. I wish they could really appeal to me.

But it makes me really interested in the written form of thw work. It includes natural events, emotions and supernatural forces a lot, and the writer expressed the moment in a very literal way, I think. It is one of the best five romanticism works. 

MACFLECKNOE

Actually I found this work interesting because it included a different way of criticising someone. Also I found its way of writing smart, I mean John Dryden never gave the name of Shadwell, he abbreviated Thomas Shadwell with “Sh---“. Hereby Shadwell could never prove the poem was about him. “Sh---“ was also stood for “shit”. I am really fulled with admiration to the work.

I do not think that stupidity of someone can be ridiculed better or in the same way. Some people can think that it is absolutely wrong to laugh at someone’s being untalented and dull. I do not agree with them. It is more fun to be like this. J According to my search about John Dryden on web, he always wanted to satisfy people. I found that someone like that wrote a poem like MacFlecknoe also interesting. Actually I really wondered the other works of the writer after I learned this work.

VICTORIAN PERIOD

Victoria came to British history with wealth. She seemed like very royal in her photo as well as her succes in her reign. She literally changed the history of British. She paved the way for being said “The sun never sets on England”. There is nothing else to say.

On the other hand Victorian period was the best for England, but it could not be said that that is good for the other countries Canada, Austria, New Zealandand and like these. Actually this period bring a lot of issues like pollution and lack of hygienic conditions with it, but I gues it is tolerable when many reforms, technological advances, industrial revolution and economical which came with Victorian period were considered.

Victorian had England changed dramatically not only in social and political circumstances but also in literature. A lot of thinkers and many writers of poetry and novel were emerged. I mean England lived its best times during the period