As the intersection of Romantic poetry, as a genre ,"the Rime of the Ancient Mariner" ,and Milton's "Paradise Lost" becomes more pronounced as the novel progresses ,we today continued to explore these connections. Joshua is doing very well with this novel as he enjoys this genre of Gothic /fantasy fiction . We discussed again the continued evocation of the ancient mariner as a narrator who is isolated much like the monster, Frankenstein ,and Capt. Walton, the ultimate narrator of the tale . Noting the monster's excoriation of Frankenstein for his rejection of his own creation and for thereby causing the monster to shed his generous nature and to adopt murderous violence, we construed the monster as both Adam and Satan of Milton's "Paradise Lost." As a portion of Percy Shelley's "Immutability" is quoted verbatim in the studied chapters , I distributed the entire poem . We then analyzed the poem using the analytic framework studied in class: speaker, type of poem, figurative language, symbols. theme.