In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have a

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In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge I have a doubt please solve it?

In this poem in Part I There is a verse where it is written- "And through the drifts the snowny clifts Did send a dismal sheen;"
Can anybody help me regarding this line.

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Hi again...

Here the mariner is surrounded by ice and nothing else but ice. There is no sign of living. Hence, even though the atmosphere is bright it is sad. "Dismal Sheen" is a sort of gloomy brightness"

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