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The Rime of the
Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge
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An Ancient Mariner
stops one (of three)
on his way to a
wedding.
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Ancient Mariner
The wedding
guest is
mesmerized bythe Mariners
passion and
begins listening tothe story.
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The Mariners Tale:
Their ship is drivensouth, by a storm, to
a place of mist andsnow.
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The ice was here,the ice was there,The ice was allaround: It cracked
and growled, androared andhowled, Likenoises in aswound!
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Surrounded by
ice.
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An albatross
appears.
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The albatross
leads them out
of the fog.
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The Mariner shoots the
albatross. At first the
crew condemns him, but
when a favorable breezeappears, they justify his
action. This implicates
them in his crime.
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Later, the wind stops and
the ship is stranded for
days, As idle as a painted
ship upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
and all the boards did
shrink; Water, water, every
where, nor any drop to
drink.
The crew blames the
Mariner for no wind and
hangs the albatross around
his neck as punishment.
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A ghost ship
approaches with
a Specter-Woman and her
Death-Mate as
crew.
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Death and Life
in Death roll dice
for the lives ofthe ships crew.
Life in Death
wins.
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Each turned his facewith a ghastly pang, andcursed me with his eye
With heavy thump, alifeless lump, theydropped down one byone.
The souls did from theirbodies fly, - They fled tobliss or woe! And everysoul, it passed me by,Like the whizz of mycross-bow!
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Alone, alone, all,all alone, alone on awide wide sea! Andnever a saint tookpity on my soul inagony.
Seven days, sevennights, I saw thatcurse, and yet Icould not die.
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Beyond the shadowof the ship, Iwatched the water-
snakes O happy living
things! No tonguetheir beauty mightdeclare: A spring oflove gushed frommy heart, and Iblessed themunaware
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The curse is lifted
and the albatross
falls from his neckand sinks like
lead into the sea.
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The dead men
awaken and the
Mariner directshis ghostly crew
North.
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As the Mariner returnsto his home port, thespirits of his crew leave
their bodies. He receives forgiveness
(shrieve) from a hermit.
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The Mariners
ship sinks.
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The storyconcluded, thewedding guest
leaves a sadderand a wiserman.
The Marinermust tell his taleto warn others(redemption).
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Many critics seethe Rime of theAncient Marineras an allegory of
some kind of fall,like
Of Coleridge -
Of Lucifer - Of Adam & Eve -forbidden fruitcast into hell
opium?
the very deep did
rot
slimy things
Slimy sea
I shot the albatross
and I had done ahellish thing
witchs oils, / burntgreen, and blue and
white
Phantasmagoria!A shifting series orsuccession of things seen orimagined, as in a dream.
STRUCTURE:
Sin, Punishment, Redemption
Milton Parallels?
(Paradise Lost)
Shelleys Interpretation?
(Frankenstein)
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poetry gives most pleasure when only generallyand not perfectly understood"
- Coleridge
Many critics maintain, as Christopher Lamb does,that the Ancient Mariner is a work of complete
and pure imagination. As
No single interpretation seems tofit the entire poem
In essence, it is a very imaginativeand unusual piece
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Purely inspirational? Dark gothic?
cursed me with his eye
Life-in-death
spectre bark
Gustav Dors Dark Etches
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Coleridge felt a deep sense of sin,for his opium addiction.
The poem could be his way of fathoming hisfeelings.
The strange power of the Ancient Mariner, as his difficult feelings.
mingled strangely with my fears
I know that man must hear me / To him my tale I teach
Hence, his sensitivity and saying that the poem
should not be analyzed?
(poetry gives most pleasure when onlygenerally and not perfectly understood)
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Instead of the cross, the Albatross/About my neck was hung
I had killed the bird / That madethe breeze to blow
Hailed it in Gods name
Christian soul
Crimson redlike Gods own head
-Hid in mist
-dungeon-grate blessed themunawares
Crewdistancedfrom God
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Vs.
Some critics maintain that this ballad was anexploration, by Coleridge, into the science vs.spirituality debate:
There are many mysterious fantastical images,the glittering eye with its strange power
the polar spirits and seraph band
The Latin preface says, Human cleverness hasalways sought knowledge of these things, never
attained it.
He was at a point in his life where he was more concerned
with the rational than the empirical, this poem was anexploration of the former.
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