The image of Ship in English Romantic poetry: Reinterpreting Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ and Shelleу’s ‘Vision of the Sea’

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The image of Ship, along with the images of World Tree and Rosa Mundi, is rightly considered one of the three most popular topoi of Western European art, starting from ancient times up to now. The mythopoeic image of Ship, rooted in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, eventually developed its own image field, the key elements of which are widely represented in various works of art. In Romanticism, Ship received its artistic embodiment in two main directions: as a symbol of man challenging nature, and as a symbol of human soul's odyssey through the waves of fate, the image of Flying Dutchman, which took shape in European folklore in the epoch of Great Geographical Discoveries. The subject of this research is to study the interpretation of the image of Ship in English Romantic literature based on the texts of its two key representatives - Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Shelley's "Vision of the Sea". During the research, such methods as comparative analysis, literary, and historical and cultural methods were used. The scientific novelty of work consists in the attempt to consider the features of the artistic evolution of the mythopoeic image of Ship in the poetry of English Romanticism on the example of texts by its key representatives through the prism of socio-cultural transformation of the image over centuries. Thus, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" demonstrates the tragic voyage of the ship whose crew is doomed to eternal torment. In turn, in "Vision of the Sea", the image of a strong human spirit is revealed, embodied in the ship entering into unequal battle with nature. In future, both trends will find their reflection in the works of art contributing to the development of the image field of Ship, the interpretation proposed by Coleridge being dominant.

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