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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner is punished for carelessly killing the albatross, not able to appreciate and love it as a part of God's creation. His ship is sent to a "painted" sea where the rest of the crew dies,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The beautiful albatross comes out of the fog As if it had been a Christian soul Its appearance and act of flying "round and round" seems to the sailors to bring about the miracle of the ice...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner does learn the consequences of his unthinking action (killing the albatross) through the death of his fellow shipmates. He is brought on the road to redemption by the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," begins in a wedding reception hall, where the narrator tells his story to a wedding guest. The setting of the actual story he...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) is one of the leading poets of the Romantic period in England. His poetic works are characterized by natural speech, simple themes, natural beauty, imagination,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Internal rhyme is when a rhyme occurs within a single line of verse. Coleridge uses this device frequently in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Some examples are, "The guests are met, the feast...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Whenever a journey is part of a narrative in a story, poem, or novel, it is safe to assume that the journey is symbolic, and this holds true in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The mariner's...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
One of most profound characteristics of Romanticism is the idea of a story or narrative within human consciousness. Romantic thinkers like Wordsworth and Coleridge believed that poetry was meant...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
At the beginning of the poem, the setting is a wedding feast or reception. There are essentially three speakers in the poem. There is a third person narrator; that is to say a narrator not in the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The wedding guest, in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," leaves the story told by the old man "sadder but wiser." The events which the old mariner told the wedding guest are not those which evoke...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I can't answer all of your questions, but I can offer you the framework to understand the thematic meaning of the crime in the poem and how the mariner achieves redemption for his crime and how...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is full of symbols. Some of these, like the sun, change their meaning, as the mariner and his shipmates change their minds about the wisdom of killing albatrosses....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
As the question indicates, the answer is up to your subjective opinion. There isn't an answer that is more correct than another answer. The key to your answer is going to be how well you explain...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The wedding guest is "sadder and wiser." Possibly, he is sadder because he himself is in need of repentance. Perhaps, the wedding guest has prejudices against some of God's creation that some...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
To be able to properly answer this question about the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," it is important to be able to read the full quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in its specific context....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Mariner pays for his folly—the thoughtless killing of the albatross, a good-luck bird for seamen—in a horrible manner. While he and his shipmates are waiting, becalmed and slowly dying of...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, "Sublime" is defined (in the second definition) as "very beautiful or good : causing strong feelings of admiration or wonder." In Coleridge's Rime of the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Of course there are resources for, and information about The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Check enotes. It all depends on what you want to know. Not knowing the purpose of your question, I will,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Romantic Poetry, that means that it possesses qualities of the Romantic Era. In Romantic poetry, the authors began doing new things. First, they used common language. Many of the poets used...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Ancient Mariner, because of the great sufferings he has undergone, has a power of discernment and speech. He can discern or pick out the person who must hear his story. He says he knows this...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This is an interesting question, for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is clearly a supernatural tale that ends with a lesson about God's love. Nevertheless, I would say that a strong thematic...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The natural elements include of course the mariner and his listener, the wedding guest, as well as the human characters in his tale. The albatross as well as other creatures including the sea...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a tale which, when examined deeply, defines the importance and power of both nature and the supernatural in the world. Coleridge's...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Rime is an archaic (old, outdated) spelling of rhyme (“poem”). When first published in Lyrical Ballads in 1798, the poem’s original title was Rime of the Ancyent Marinere. Coleridge used many...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The main idea of this poem is a moral message, warning against thoughtless and foolhardy actions such as the one the Mariner performs in shooting the albatross. The albatross had done the Mariner...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is presented mainly in traditional ballad form, which creates a type of hypnotic, sing-song narration into which the reader is drawn. This story, presented in the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Let's see the full idea, which comes at the end of Coleridge's poem about a man possessed: "...He prayeth well, who loveth wellBoth man and bird and beast.He prayeth best, who loveth bestAll...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The traditional elements of crime writing—an eerie setting, a terrible crime involving a death and a victim, vengeance, guilt, punishment, and a transgression against morals and/or laws can be...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The spelling of "rime" used in the title of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is an archaic one, that was obsolete at the time the poem was written. In this work, as...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Mariner spoke these words. He said them to the wedding guest that he has stopped in Part I of the poem. He is telling the guest about the beginning of the voyage during which the Mariner...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
All of what you describe are ways of showing the mariner that he is not in control of his own world. He must answer to a higher power, "God" and "Mother Nature." Because he...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In line 97 the sun is called glorious for a couple of reasons. Their ship was surrounded by fog and mist, and once the sun rose, the fog and mist cleared away. The sun was described as glorious...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The description of the sea water in Coleridge's 'The Rime of The Ancient Mariner' is reminiscent of the way oil appears when it is mixed with water. Imagine gasolene or diesel spill marks on roads....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The crew's joy shift to horror in the poem by Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner because, at first, they took the passing fog as a bad sign but within it they saw the appearance of the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
At the start of Part V, the Mariner says "Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing,". He is finally able to sleep a restful, peaceful sleep. In the previous part, he finally was able to pray and the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Much is wrapped up in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The obvious is that there are consequences to every action. When the sailor killed the albatross, suffering and...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I am unsure of what you specifically mean. Are you referring to the life of the Mariner after his experiences? Part of the penance that the Mariner must pay for his crime in killing the albatross...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I think he is referring to a "Gothic" perspective, or worldview, from which to analyze the poem. Search under "Gothic Literature" and "Gothicism." Enotes has this definition of "Gothic...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I'm guessing that you are asking about literary Romanticism, such as Coleridge's. Some characteristics of Romanticism are:a delight in the past/the Gothic/the medievalorientalism/interest in the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Some of what your professor says I agree with, some I do not. Let's look at the 3 speakers she says that there are in the poem.First is the mariner, who is fated to tell his story for the rest of...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner must travel from land to land and teach others, by using his own story as an example, to love and respect everything God has made. At the end, he tells the wedding guest,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"Liminality" is described very much like a philosophical "rite of passage:" ...being on the "threshold" of or between two different existential planes... In Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The entire story hinges on the incredible descriptions the speaker gives us and the story that he tells. We can't help but imagine and picture the scene as a movie behind our eyelids as he tells...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
It is important to realise that religion is presented as a vital force in both of these texts. However, there is a distinct difference in the way in which each text presents religion and how it...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In Part 1, the mariner kills an albatross. In Part 2, his crew blame him for killing a good omen. When the fog gets thicker, they agree with the killing, thinking that the albatross was actually a...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
While you have not provided an excerpt, I can certainly help you with understanding how Coleridge's famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" exemplifies the Romantic ideal of praising, or...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
4 characteristics are the evidence of nature, self-reflection, atonement and repentence, and salvation. There are also more characteristics of the Romantic Era in it, as well, which I'm sure...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is an embedded narrative. The "present" of the poem is a wedding party at which one of the wedding guests is stopped by the "ancient...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," the albatross is a large sea bird known to follow ships. Most sailors considered them to be good luck. The Ancient Mariner shot and killed the bird. Another...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Though very different in theme and content, there certainly are some similarities between Percy Bysshe Shelley's short poem "Love's Philosophy" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longer work The Rime of...
