...things as well. Coleridge compares the stillness of two ships in his The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-. Day after day, day after day, We struck, nor breath, nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Metaphor Metaphor is so important in poetry that poetry has...

...expanse', even to the extent of employing the same rhyme words: All in a hot and copper sky The bloody sun at noon, Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the moon. ( 1 07- 1 0) Later, in Part Five of the poem, the Mariner's ship is again becalmed, and again 'The...