JOURNEY

The poem by Coleridge of
an old man with “skinny
hands and glittering eyes”
and a wedding guest who
“cannot choose but hear”.

INTERPRETATIONS:

Psychology of
an old crazy man

Allegory of life

Metaphor of the
original sin

ELEMENTS:

Real

Position of the sun in the sky
according to the hemisphere
and the direction where the
ship is sailing

Unreal

- Color of the ice and the sun - Noiseless wind

The mental journey of an ordinary man
during an ordinary day in an ordinary
city (Dublin).

STREAM OF
CONSCIOUSNESS

Interior monologue

I was thinking of so many things he didn’t know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly

EPIPHANY

She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live. Why should she be unhappy? She had a right of happiness.

The founder of psychoanalysis, the
science which analyzes humans' mental
process.

A journey into a neurotic
mind.

An artist influenced by
all the journeys he did
during his life.

The journey that changed
also phisically the protagonist
Lucius