ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Just like the famous line, ‘water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink’, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, water is around us but is often not clean or safe enough to drink.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink . . . ” From the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by the 19th Century English Poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge in his lengthy 1798 poem, once pondered by all who studied English Literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -What does ‘Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink’ mean? This is from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and is used to suggest that despite being surrounded by something, you cannot benefit from it. Here we could reference it with sea water, as 97% of earth’s water is ocean.

Detailed explanation-4: -Lines from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, ” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The speaker, a sailor on a becalmed ship, is surrounded by salt water that he cannot drink.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge In the following excerpt, sun/sea/sea, beat/breast/bassoon, red/rose, and merry/minstrelsy are examples of alliterative devices. Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.