- Oct 2024
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He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
Theme (and message) of treating all lives with love and kindness, which comes from the other theme that all lives are valuable, since they were created by God. -MH
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He singeth loud his godly hymns That he makes in the wood. He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood.
Theme of redemption and forgiveness, specifically the redeeming and healing power of prayer/God. -MH
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Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Theme of being haunted by guilt/past sins, as well as the Isolation, Fear, and Control that the continued memory of its causal event still brings/has upon its sufferer's life, even after progress towards redemption has been made. This also connects with the theme of redemption itself, as it is that shadowing regret that compels one to overcome and dissipate it through redemption.
Also, as a fun, semi-related note, this stanza was repurposed in Frankenstein. -MH
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- Sep 2024
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With rocks, and stones, and trees.
A contrast to her previous heavenly and immortal state when she was living. Now she is brought down to earth, and this could be how the speaker has been disillusioned to her with her death, or a comment on how in death, her spirit becomes connected to and part of nature.
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