A sentence with an ominous sound, resonating throughout the novel, back to Walton's
sense of isolation in Archangel, (I:L2:2), his ice-bound ship (I:L4:2), the discovery
of Victor marooned on an ice-floe (I:L4:6 and note) and to the enforced isolation
in which his Creature is forced to pass his entire existence (II:3:1 and II:8:4).
Of particular weight in this diction is its reflection of famous lines in Coleridge's
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to which Walton has already referred suggestively.