Today it seems that writers consistently strive to find a relationship between the hero and the audience, hoping to spark more interest in their readers or viewers - most of the time this is achieved through the retelling of their own personal experiences, a story that was told to them, or, possibly, a fabricated story with a main character that the audience can easily relate. That being said, many pieces this semester revolve around the notion of the writer and the persona, particularly in travel literature. By taking a closer look at Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Samuel Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Canto III, one can identify the technical differences in each writer's position dealing with the issue of the writer versus the persona idea in each work. As we move from Swift's character, Gulliver, to Coleridge's old traveler, Mariner...