...the horrors before him, he retains a sense of spectral persecution: he is Like one, that on a lonely road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. (LI. 446-51) Like the earlier simile describing the ship's flight before the storm, this image concerns...

...really do exist. It turns us all into children, frightened to watch yet too fascinated to stop watching, Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.6 The witches are the catalysts to this fear, the equivocal aspects of their being announced...

...rim dips; the stars rush out; At one stride comes the dark. 2448 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 2449 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart. 2450...

...old Horny," he said to the dead tree. And once, as dusk pursued him homeward, he began repeating: As one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread: when the sound of a crackling twig made every nerve in his body stiffen with terror. Some impulse not...

...away: I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. And now this spell was snapped: once more I viewed the ocean green. And looked far...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Buat soon there breathed a wind on me, Nor sound nor motion made: Its path was not upon the sea, In...

...and to look, haunter-haunted, pursuer-pursued, into the green corrupted Hell Face of malignant death: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. hair-faced louts of Doubleday. They struck fear and wonder in the hearts of the smaller, gentler boys,...

...humiliation. Bion quotes Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a representation of this state of mind: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. This dread constellation is normally so profoundly intolerable that human beings banish it from awareness...

...might well think him a weirdy, a criminal. She might turn and catch sight of him, crossing the park: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Does she go to a gym class? She must have caught me looking just now. He knows she does not wear a...

...fear, and I hurried on with irregular steps, not daring to look about me: Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. [Coleridge's Ancient Mariner] Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various...

...A775 2002 6I5.8'5I56— dc2l 2002025439 ISBN 0-4 1 5-2 1 980-9 (hbk) ISBN 0-4 I 5-2 1 98 1 -7 (pbk) Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear...knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Contents List of contributors ix Foreword by Robin Higgins...