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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This is a tough question. It's tough because there are so many great images in this poem. Picking a single image is a tough choice. From part one, I feel an important and significant image is found...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Passage 1: At length did cross an albatross, Thorough the fog it came; As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in God’s name. This passage is significant because it introduces the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
After the Mariner shoots and kills the albatross, the rest of the crew hang the albatross around the Mariner's neck to symbolize and punish the sailor for his crime, which they believe is...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" marked the shift to British Romanticism and the modernity of poetry. This poem was published in 1798 and describes the experiences of a...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Oxymora are figures of speech which involve some kind of contradiction in terms. In Part II, the speaker says "Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink." This might qualify as an oxymoron...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner tells his story to a random younger guy who's on his way to attend a family wedding. This guest is actually outdoors and on his way into the wedding, and is a stranger to the mariner,...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," although men attempt to act as free agents, they are at the mercy of both natural and supernatural forces. The men in the tale begin...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
At line 41 of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner describes the ship's journey south into unknown waters. The storm-blast is described as having "o'ertaking wings," which gives the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Imagery can be a difficult kind of figurative language to discuss because it is varied and encompasses a lot of other types of figurative language. Basically any kind of figurative language that...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
New Historicism refers to a mode of criticism in which the literary text is read as a product of the historical conditions under which it was produced. In the case of the “Ancient Mariner,”...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This question was one that William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge had to grapple with when they collaborated on their collection of poems, "Lyrical Ballads." When introducing their work,...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Kubla Khan" and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" are similar in their lyrical qualities, their use of imagery, and their faux historical subject matter. They are different in their state of...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Parallelism is a literary device in which corresponding parts of a sentence use similar grammatical structure or wording. Poetry generally uses a great deal of parallelism because it is very...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The killing of the albatross is a central element of Coleridge's poem. The "moral" of the poem, its lesson, is stated very overtly near the end: "He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In lines 41-44, the Mariner tells the guest that a storm began to blow the ship south, toward the South Pole. They encounter mist, snow, and icebergs. Eventually, they are surrounded by ice. The...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner's story is not necessarily dramatic at first. He has to get someone involved in his experience before it becomes dramatic. Coleridge saw this and realized the need for drama to hook his...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In Part IV of the poem, the wedding guest is also afraid of the Mariner. At this part of the poem, the Mariner has just described how Death came to the ship and took all of the crew. The wedding...
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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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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yes, there is a good deal of alliteration in this passage from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Alliteration means to use the same consonant at the beginning of a word more than once in a poetic...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This question is another way of asking, "Does this poem qualify as a ballad?" The answer is "yes," but let's examine each of the three qualifications contained in this definition of a ballad. Does...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Coleridge's poem is rich with imagery and contains interesting uses of personification as it develops the theme of respect and love of nature, especially living creatures. Imagery is description...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The main theme of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is expressed by the mariner just before he lets the wedding guests go. He states, He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner has a supernatural power which enables him to recognize a man who will benefit from his tale and who therefore can be stopped and held in a sort of spell while he listens. The mariner...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The logbook of the ship's voyage would first show the ship leaving the harbor. Then, as the ship headed south, a storm appeared. Then, the ship encountered mist and snow, and the ship encountered...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The ship has been drawn toward the South Pole. They are surrounded by ice. When the Albatross arrives, they treat it as a good omen. They feed the Albatross and the ice breaks, allowing them to...
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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
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" has stood the test of time, remaining a beloved classic more than 200 years after it was written. Yet William Wordsworth and even Coleridge himself seemed to be...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The mariner committed a sin against one of God's creatures by killing a friendly, harmless albatross, and the polar spirits punished him for it and required him to do penance during and after the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy that deals with deep questions of life and existence. Although the overt theme of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is that a person should love all the...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The poem doesn't explicitly answer the questions of when and why the mariner and his crew set sail in the first place. We can assume that the weather was fair when they set out, for " 'The ship...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner stops a wedding guest in the reception hall to tell him his story. The mariner having survived when all of his...
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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
This is one of the most enduring questions about Coleridge's poem and certainly one of the most discussed. To approach this question, we should look to the text for some help in constructing an...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part three begins with giving the reader and the mariner hope that not all is lost. He sees a ship approaching in the distance, and he shouts out to his crew mates that they are all saved....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
One point of comparison between Emerson's and Colerdige's poems surround the individual's relationship with the natural world. Both poems explore this in different ways. In Colerdige's poem, a...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a long narrative poem, framed as a story told by the "ancient mariner" of the title to an anonymous wedding guest. It is written in...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Mariner is cursed, evidently by God, for killing the albatross for pure sport or amusement. When he finally manages to return to his home port aboard a ship manned by a ghostly crew, he meets a...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The quoted words occur in the stanza that reads in full: The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,The furrow followed free:We were the first that ever burstInto that silent sea. "The furrow...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The title of Coleridge's poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, could have two meanings, based on the various definitions of the word "rime." Merriam-Webster gives one definition of rime as: an...
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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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Kubla Khan
Perhaps the most dramatic and meaningful extended gloss in the 1834 version (first printed in the 1817 version in Sybelline Leaves) of Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner relates to lines...
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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...
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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
For Coleridge, the source of guilt is a combination of his mental disorder and his addiction to laudanum and opium. In one of his letters to Joseph Cottle, dated April 26, 1814, he writes: . . ....
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Both Coleridge and Wordsworth believed that poetry could do one of two things, either make the reader sympathize with the truths presented in the words by consistently presenting nature in its...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The narrator is an old, weathered, and wizened seaman who meets "three gallants" on their way to a wedding feast. He is able to detain one of them, and he proceeds to relate to this young man his...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
By far the most interesting poem to discuss with regard to this prompt, in my opinion, is "Kubla Khan," which famously was a poem that was inspired by an opium dream that Coleridge himself had....
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part of Colerdige's desire to create a world beneath our own apparent world is to enhance the supernatural feel to the poem. Coleridge wanted to construct a vision of reality that represents how...
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Pronouns are grammatical substitutes for proper nouns; if "Caledon" is my proper noun, "I", "me" or "myself" would be pronouns. Some of the pronouns in this poem are no different than our common...
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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...