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Both John Keats, in “Ode to a Nightingale,” and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” use a bird as a central motif of their poem. However, these creatures are definitely not birds of a feather; their function within their respective works reflects the vastly different themes of the two works themselves, as well as the psyches of the men who wrote them. This paper will discuss both Keats’ and Coleridge’s …showed first 75 words of 1778 total…

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