This is a poem " the rime of the ancient mariner "part 4 .class 10th (cbse)

1. THE RIME OF THE
ANCIENT MARINER
-Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

2. PART-04

3. INDEX
• Author sketch.
• Introduction.
• Poem and
summary.
• Figure of
speech .
• References.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. “POETRY GIVES MORE PLEASURE
WHEN ONLY GENERALLY AND NOT
PERFECTLY UNDERSTOOD.”
-S.T.COLERIDGE

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Poem
• Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took
pity on
My 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.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Poem
• An orphan's curse would
drag to hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! more horrible than
that
Is 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. Poem
• Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and
velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and
every track
Was 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.

21. 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.

22. Poem
• The selfsame moment I
could pray;
And from my neck so free
The albatross fell off, and
sank
Like 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.

23. ASSOCIATED LITERARY TERMS
➢Frame narrative
(personification)
➢Alliteration
➢Imagery
➢Archaisms
➢Simile
➢Metaphor
➢Oxymoron

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. CLASS: 10TH “ A”
SCHOOL : Kendriya Vidyalaya no:1
Golconda Hyderabad-08
PRESENTED
BY:
JAYITA.S AND
ANUSHA

27. GUIDED BY:
MS.MOHSINA
SIDDIQUA
ENGLISH ASSSIGNMENT

28. REFRENCES
➢www.wikipedia.com
➢www.sparknotes.com
➢www.slideshare .com
➢www.ask.com
➢Kvpayyanurecontent.weebly.com/