Scientific and Mythical Approach to S.T. Coleridge’s the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

For the first time in the history of English literature, a new age emerged with its quite different styles and thoughts from its previous one which took the people’s unconscious mind into the world of nature and its mysterious beauty. It gave rise in the field of literature to self expressions, love for nature, the use of common man’s language and so and so on. This was the age of Romanticism, or the Romantic Age. This age produced many eminent literary figures among them was a most prolific and distinguished one; S.T. Coleridge who with another well-known personality, William Wordsworth, wrote a world famous book Lyrical Ballads (1798). Contrary to the Neo-classical age, it put stress onto the free expressions in the poetry, and rejected the use of sophisticated words, as well as the rules of writing a poem. Full of natural beauty and adventures, this age also saw the development in scientific thoughts which were going parallel to its mythical one. This paper, “Scientific and Mythical Approach to S.T. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” discusses both the approaches in the context of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” with a brief outline of Romanticism, Mythology, Science, Neo-classicism, and the Nature.