The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Questions by Tag

Symbolism

The Albatross

Water Snakes

Death

The Ship

Literary Devices

Imagery

Alliteration

Repetition

Simile

Metaphor

Internal Rhyme

Oxymoron

Personification

Framing Device

Plot

Albatross

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Quotes

I Fear Thee, Ancient Mariner! I Fear Thy Skinny Hand! and Thou Art Long, and Lank, and Brown, as is the Ribbed Sea-sand.

The Fair Breeze Blew, the White Foam Flew, the Furrow Followed Free; We Were the First That Ever Burst Into That Silent Sea

The Bright-eyed Mariner

He Prayeth Best, Who Loveth Best All Things Both Great and Small; for the Dear God Who Loveth Us, He Made and Loveth All.

And I Had Done a Hellish Thing, and It Would Work 'em Woe: for All Averred, I Had Killed the Bird That Made the Breeze to Blow. Ah Wretch! Said They, the Bird to Slay, That Made the Breeze to Blow! nor Dim nor Red, Like God's Own Head, the Glorious Sun Up

Water, Water, Every Where, nor Any Drop to Drink

Since Then, at an Uncertain Hour, That Agony Returns: and Till My Ghastly Tale is Told, This Heart Within Me Burns. I Pass, Like Night, from Land to Land; I Have Strange Power of Speech; That Moment That His Face I See, I Know the Man That Must Hear Me: T

Themes

Redemption

Supernatural

Guilt

Nature

Fear

Characters

The Mariner

The Wedding Guest

Style

Archaic Language

Narrative Perspective

Framing Device

Third Person

Genre

Ballad

Authorship

Samuel Taylor Coleridge