How Does Coleridge In 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner' And 'Kubla Khan' Show The Interrelatedness Between Mankind, Nature And The Poetic Experience?

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is expressed in the poem as a type of blessing
or relief which he must earn. In 'Kubla Khan', Coleridge expresses man's
social instinct to conform and belong to a group. This also relates to the
creation of rituals and rules by the human-being and the obeying of the
cycle of life to death, again and again. The running theme of freedom and
release for man is emphasised in both poems, escaping from criticism, in
the case of KK, and from blame and regret, in RAM. They both explore the
tendency to be impulsive for reasons accumulated through the traits of
human and social instinct, in contrast to that obtained naturally. An
example of this purely natural expression is that of the senses. KK is an
extremely sensual and sexual poem, appealing to maybe the animalistic part
of the human rather than to the section which recognises its reason and
depth. In RAM, the mariner is subjected to the elements of nature, where
all his senses are exposed to extreme environmental lengths. His ...

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