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1、KEYWORDSdawnsong,AdrienneRich,“SidebySide”WORKSCITEDDronke,Peter.TheMedievalLyric.London:Hutchinson,1968.Rich,Adrienne.“SidebySide.”NecessitiesofLife:Poems1962–1965.NewYork:Norton,1966.43.Saville,Jonathan.TheMedievalEroticAlba:StructureasMeaning.NewYork:Columbi
2、aUP,1972.Sigal,Gale.EroticDawn-SongsoftheMiddleAges.Gainesville:FloridaUP,1996.EquilibriuminColeridge’sTHERIMEOFTHEANCIENTMARINERSamuelTaylorColeridge’spoem“TheRimeoftheAncientMariner”recountsaseafarer’slife-alteringexperiencewhilesailingtotheSouthPole.However,
3、thepoem’sgreatersignificancedealswithreverence.Asthepoemopenswithaweddingcelebration,themarinerselectsaparticularmantowhomhetellshistale.Theweddingguestlistensintentlyasthemarinershareshisdreadfulincident:Whileatsea,themarinerenduredabrutalmoral-itylessonasares
4、ultofkillinganinnocentalbatross,ultimatelyendinginthedemiseofhisshipmates.Thescientificprocessofosmosisthatwasmadeknownhalfacenturypriortothepoemandthedesiccatedboardscomposingtheshiprevealthemessagethatallcreaturesareworthyofequalreverence(Fox1).Afterthemarine
5、rkillsthealbatross,vengeancebegins.Thewindabandonstheship.Coleridgewrites,“Downdroptthebreeze,thesailsdroptdown,[...]Westuck,norbreathnormotion”(107,116).Theirwatersupplydiminishes,“Andeverytongue,throughutterdrought,[...]Waswitheredattheroot”(135–36).Thevastse
6、asurroundsthecrew,butthedehydratedmenareunabletodrinkthesaltwateravailable:“Water,water,everywhere,[...]Noranydroptodrink”(121–22).Theshrunkenboardsmakinguptheshipillustratethelackofdrinkingwaterandequality.Coleridgewrites,“Water,water,everywhere,[...]Andallthe
7、boardsdidshrink”(199–120).Eventhoughtheoceaniswater,thesaltintheoceanrobstheshipofallmoisture,causingitswoodenplanksto“shrink”(120).Theship,personifyingpeoplewhorequirepurewater,isleechedofitspalatablewatersupplybythehypertonicsolutionofthesaltyocean.Naturallym
8、ovingtocreateequilibrium,themoistureorwaterfromtheshiptransferstotheoceaninanefforttodiluteandbalancethesaltconcentration.Thisprocessthatcausestheship’splankstoshrinkandshri
