This ppt is on the rime of the ancient mariner part 4 and its summary

1. Rahul Productions
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Part 4

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. • 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.

10. 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 more 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.

11. 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. The
moon was going up with a star or two next to her.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. 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.

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Mayank Bhaswal