Post on 13-Dec-2015
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”Secily Baker
Summary
• There was a man that his name was the mariner and he was telling a story to this wedding guest about things that had happened.
Theme
• God loves all the creatures and you should not harm anything that is innocent.
Quotes
• “Water, water, every where,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, every whereNor any drop to drink”
Quotes
• “The self moment I could pray;And from my neck so freeThe Albatross fell off, and sankLike lead into the sea.”
Quotes
• “Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.”
Quotes
• “The many men, so beautiful!And they all dead did lie:And a thousand thousand slimy thingsLived on; and so did I.”
Quotes
• “That agony returns;And till my ghastly tale is told,This heart within me burns.”
Quotes
• “And through the drifts the snowy cliffs
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken-
The ice was all between”
Quotes
• “And every tongue, through utter drought,Was withered at the root;We could not speak, no more than ifWe had been choked with soot”
Quotes
• “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,We could nor laugh nor wail;Through utter drouth all dumb we stood!I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,And cried, A sail! a sail”
Quotes
• “He holds him with his glittering eye – The wedding-guest stood still,And listens like a three-years' child:The mariner hath his will”