Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-11-25
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Poetry like "Tbe Ancient Mar
jBerp has 10 Interpretation IN the
limits ~ the understanding, II ap.
peals ~ different part OF our ma
tafe. "1hs moment VIZ are taken on
that strange ship the actual and the
unreal cease ~ baye any disiipe-
tom The ocean on which II IL
driven by spirits hand is Infinitely
further removed than the watsrH on
which the Spirit III God moved on the
morning III creation, Tor II IN removed
not IN time, not IN space merely, but
IN the sphere ol existence. Does the
mariner represent soul ndfiit "a
solitary, excluded from natures
great begelioanee and redeemed nt
last by the spirit of loyeP Let II be
so-sof say, rather, II you must inter
pret ~ the Germans iaHhi0nz-that
ihe mariner Is the spirit of DiAeon.
tent which wapdefs over the world
and marks uBeriDgy the men on
whom II can lay the burden ol iih
paiH-lhe questiDnings, The despair
which iofmepts noble souls
nuta iiht HiHui ifHW
I baea strange power of hpeseh,
Tbs Hpnnui tnBt his face ! $3.50,
know The man that must hear ne,
~ him NY tale ! taaahi'
Tbe wedding guest eannots choose
but beaf, The 'glitlsfing eye" has
looked into his soul and the lumuli
and 10y and uptDar ~ the world fe'
oeje, beagids faint npd far-a dance
of shadows Ia spectral music, the
bus0u, fiddy bflda, herself an IN
sabslaUiial phantoiai aud llis voyage
into the nptn0vD, tbs startling, IN
ppflanl reality, No wonder thai
after be had heard IL
niie waat ilkn oie that hath been stunned
ADd ~ at Agusa fDr gtbi
a naadn, aHJ wiser mah,
liz fDaa thh m9ttrN's NOM
Bladder ana wiser, as Dante was NJ
ter Iie had finished tho HDiUaa Com
media" ~ The Shakespeare that
wfotn Lear" was HaddH and Wisai
than tiie shakespeare that Nfgtt
"H0mee and Juliet" BGt NJ All tbs
mythical ianapiGg tbs artist gives ~
hint, iGr the sweet, little, childish
moral at the cad
'IIN HfhIhfH HbNt WIN lNFHtN HHaf
All iblnsAt both Ktaai AID sWeiii
fDt tha great 'igd NnD iggalb uai
Hs mAdn aud i0Fstb aitf
w marhly Il device ~ bting tItt
reader back Into tbs world NJ saDsa
The post places lbe under world, tht
world oi nav forces, hqaafaly bsfGrt
you, You entef IL, aud then afe sel
back IN your town countries" The
story IN told by one who has bean
thprn, II IN true, Tho eileot IL pro.
duuod by numbeflaHs cumulative
touches, all of which. In The true bal
lad manner, are subordinate "a the
narrative, which III oi Aurli novelty
aud mower that wa iae la hearing il
s0Ine vi the strange ununAlneHH that
aiiaota animals or the approach of ~
ealipse, Experience fails, All oul
knowledge Wa HuppoHod WAS hnAad
On eNperIanee. iiefe IN new Hofi
N knowledge, not haHed on expert
shlee, There IL nothing aonpalahl,
10 the elIpct oi "fhe Ancient Mar
iner,' unloaa II be tho terror In
dueed by certain ptraina Of music
Something elemental throbA ane
tremhlas within ua-~lhe Holld grount
ol experience may yawn and lot n
down Into uuknown deptha. whef,
the tlrmneAa of the human soul Il
nausht, where the courage Ia dla'
solved and will II powerleHe, The
ideal quality ol "frhe Ancient Mari
ner" Ii ahown BY the fact that Y oan
.nal hu illuslrated. pore, u master o
nloom. af the slnlatcf prospective y