The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- First Published: 1798
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Allegory
- Time of Work: Late medieval period
- Setting: High seas
- Principal Characters: The Ancient Mariner, A Hermit, A Wedding Guest
- Genres: Ghost story, Poetry, Sea story, Ballad
- Subjects: Supernatural, Superstition, Sin or Original sin, Storytelling, Storms, Ships, Sailing or sailors, Birds, Weddings, Middle Ages
- Locales: Oceans
The Story:
Three young gallants on their way to a wedding were stopped by an old gray-headed sailor who detained one of them. The ancient Mariner held with his gaze a young man whose next of kin was being married in the church nearby and forced him to listen, against his will, to the old seaman’s tale. The ancient Mariner told how his ship left the home port and sailed southward to the equator. In a storm the vessel was blown to polar regions of snow and ice. When an albatross flew out of the frozen silence, the crew hailed it as a good omen. The sailors made a pet of the...
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