..."hope"; and as the mythical poems reveal, Coleridge's imagination provided him with little relief. All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...breath nor motion, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where,...

...join the angelic strain. 5. From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1 798 )' All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...bigger than the Moon. Day after day; day after day, 5 We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every...

...on the mariner and his shipmates as the world of ice and snow is replaced by that of searing heat: All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,...above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. This realistic and vividly visual image is also symbolic, as the sun is representative of God, but...

...motionless as a model ship . . . polished marble: cf. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 11. 115-18: 'Day after day, day after day, | We stuck, nor breath nor motion; | As idle as a painted ship | Upon a painted ocean.' 64 The watch finished washing decks: that is, the man on watch. 65 an extraordinary...

...prayers fiends — evil spirits averred — declared, affirmed And the Albatross begins to be avenged. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where,...

...white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion: As idle as a painted ship, Upon a painted ocean. It was my turn to read. I'd brought excerpts from English diaries in which Cook's...

...crew observing, but for the most part powerless, to influence the course on which they are heading, Day after day, day after day. We stuck, nor breath nor motion-, As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean But in an instant; And now the storm-blast came, and he Was tyrannous and strong: He...

...dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, / Twas sad as sad could be; / And we did speak only to reak / The silence of the sea! / All in a hot and copper...breath nor motion; / As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean. / Water, water, every where, / And all the boards did shrink; / Water, water, every...

...tropics which worsened their torment. The famous lines could have been written for both predicaments: Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck,...

...are a focus of interest and seem interchangeable, as Coleridge had noted in The Ancient Mariner where "The bloody sun, at noon / Right up above the mast did stand / No bigger than the moon." Ernst frequently turned the discs of sun and moon into a ring. These sun rings resemble not only the...