THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

-Samuel Taylor

Coleridge

PART-04

INDEX

• Author sketch.

• Introduction.

• Poem and

summary.

• Figure of

speech .

• References.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

❑ He was born on October 21,1772 in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire ,U.K. and died on July 25 , 1834.

❑He was an English poet , literary critic and philosopher who with his friend William Wordsworth was the founder of the romantic movement in England.

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER .

❖The rime of ancient mariner is the longest

major poem by the English poet Samuel

Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and

published in 1798 in the first edition of

Lyrical ballads.

❖Ballad –narrative poem and also includes

archaic words and spelling .

❖Intense descriptions

❖Emotional force

The poem is written in romantic style .

Protagonist ancient mariner is the

narrator of the story.

It is a one of the best classical poems

written by S .T. Coleridge.

The poem is full of imagination , fantasy

and supernatural elements.

The poet tries to highlight the Christian

concept of sin, punishment and redemption

through the story of the ancient mariner.

“POETRY GIVES MORE PLEASURE

WHEN ONLY GENERALLY AND NOT

PERFECTLY UNDERSTOOD.”

-S.T.COLERIDGE

Poem

• "I fear thee, ancient

mariner!

I fear thy skinny hand!

And thou art long, and

lank, and brown,

As is the ribbed sea-sand.

Summary & analysis

• The wedding guest is

scared of the ancient

mariner because he thinks

that he is a ghost by his

long, brown skinny hand.

Poem

• I fear thee and

thy glittering eye,

And thy skinny

hand, so brown."

–

"Fear not, fear

not, thou

wedding-guest!

This body

dropped not

down.

Summary & analysis• The wedding guest says

that he fears the ancient

mariner, his eyes and his

skinny hand which is so

brown. The ancient

mariner reassures him

that he is no ghost. He

was the only one who

survived

Poem

• Alone, alone, all, all alone,Alone on a wide wide sea!And never a saint took pity onMy soul in agony.

Summary & analysis

• He tells him that he is all

alone in the sea with the

ghosts of the dead

haunting him. He wishes

that the spirits of the

saints take pity on him.

Poem

• The many men, so

beautiful!

And they all dead did lie:

And a thousand thousand

slimy things

Lived on; and so did I.Summary & analysis

• He feels bad that all the

good and beautiful men

have died but still the

slimy things and he

himself stayed alive.

Poem

• I looked upon the rotting

sea,

And drew my eyes away;

I looked upon the rotting

deck,

And there the dead men

lay.

Summary & analysis

• He looked around the sea

but then got upset and

drew his eyes away. Then

he looked at the deck and

saw that the dead men lay

there.

Poem

• I looked to heaven, and

tried to pray;

But or ever a prayer had

gushed,

A wicked whisper came,

and made

My heart as dry as dust. Summary & analysis

• He looks up to heaven to

pray to save his soul but

then he hears an evil

laugh like a devil that

takes away his enthusiam

for prayer and scares him.

Poem • I closed my lids, and kept

them close,

Till the balls like pulses

beat;

For the sky and the sea,

and the sea and the sky

Lay like a load on my

weary eye,

And the dead were at my

feet.

Summary & analysis

• He closes his eyes to

avoid looking at the

dreadful scene around

him. His eyes are hurt by

looking at the scene and

the dead bodies were at

his feet.

Poem

• The cold sweat melted

from their limbs,

Nor rot nor reek did they:

The look with which they

looked on me

Had never passed away.Summary & analysis

• He sees that the bodies of

the dead sailors did not

rot but looked at him with

the eyes that still cursed.

Poem

• An orphan's curse would drag to hellA spirit from on high;But oh! more horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye!Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,And yet I could not die.

Summary & analysis

• The curse of the dead’s

were worse than that of

the orphan’s. but this is a

bad indication because

the curse of an orphan

could drag a spirit down to

hell. For one whole week,

he had to see that curse

but yet could not die.

Poem

• The moving moon went

up the sky,

And nowhere did abide:

Softly she was going up,

And a star or two beside –

Summary & analysis• The moon rose in the sky

and did not stand still. She

was going up with a star

or two next to her.

Poem • Her beams bemocked the

sultry main,

Like April hoar-frost

spread;

But where the ship's huge

shadow lay,

The charmed water burnt

alway

A still and awful red.

Summary & analysis

• The moonlight falls on the

ship like frost in April.

But the place where the

shadow of the ship fall,

he could see water burnt

in red.

Poem

• Beyond the shadow of the

ship,

I watched the water snakes:

They moved in tracks of

shining white,

And when they reared, the

elfish light

Fell off in hoary flakes

Summary & analysis

• He still sees the strange

colours like red. The trails

left by the sea snakes are

mischevious white light.

Poem

• Within the shadow of the shipI watched their rich attire:Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,They coiled and swam; and every trackWas a flash of golden fire.

Summary & analysis

• At the shadow of the ship,

he sees different colours

of the water snakes : blue,

glossy green and velvet

black. When they swam,

they left trails of golden

fire.

Poem

• O happy living things! No tongue

Their beauty might declare:

A spring of love gushed from my

heart,

And I blessed them unaware:

Sure my kind saint took pity on

me,

And I blessed them unaware.Summary & analysis

• He gets excited looking at

them. He praises them of

their beauty. Unknowingly

he blesses the creatures

with all his heart.

Poem

• The selfsame moment I could pray;And from my neck so freeThe albatross fell off, and sankLike lead into the sea.

Summary & analysis

• It has taken only the

blessings for the snakes

to remove his horrible

curse. He has been

hanging the albatross

around his neck for the

whole time and now it fell

off his neck and deep into

the sea.

ASSOCIATED LITERARY TERMS

➢Frame narrative

(personification)

➢Alliteration

➢Imagery

➢Archaisms

➢Simile

➢Metaphor

➢Oxymoron

ANAPHORA

❖The use of a word referring back to a word used

earlier in a text or conversation to avoid repetition.

OR

❖A rhetorical term for the repetition of a word or

phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.

EXAMPLES

I fear thee ,ancient mariner ! I fear thy skinny hand .

Alone ,alone ,all all alone

Alone ,on a wide wide sea .

And a thousand thousand slimy things .

For the sky and the sea and the sea and the sky.

CLASS: 10TH

“ A”

SCHOOL : Kendriya Vidyalaya no:1

Golconda Hyderabad-08

PRESENTED

BY:

JAYITA.S AND

ANUSHA

GUIDED BY:

MS.MOHSINA

SIDDIQUA

ENGLISH ASSSIGNMENT

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