Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient" Mariner part iv
1. Coleridge’s
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part IV
Slide presentation on summary , themes & poetic devices
Slide presenter
Mahmudul Hassan
ID: ENG04706470
2. Part IV summary
The mariner’s story continues…
o The wedding guest noticed that the mariner himself looks like a ghost ; skinny
brown colored body & with big glittering eyes.
o The Mariner was alone on the ocean & his soul was in bitter pain but no God or
Angel tried to relieve his pain.
o The sailors were laying dead on the deck & the Mariner was still alive like the
ugly sea creatures.
o The mariner tried to pray but his heart was so hard to pray.
o He found unforgettable could curse in the open eyes of the dead sailors, more
horrible than the curse of an orphan.
o The Mariner couldn’t sleep because of the heavy curse.
3. o One day he saw some water snakes playing in the shadow of his ship. He filled
with love for them & blessed them from his heart.
o The Mariner’s love for the water snakes freed him from the curse.
o At last the dead Albatross fell from his neck & he was able to pray.
Part IV summary
The mariner’s story continues…
4. The wedding guest
fears the mariner’s
ghost like glittering
eyes , his tiny
hands and brown
wrinkled body.
6. Part IV Themes
o Realization of sins.
o Inability to pray, drink & sleep and the experiences of loneliness
symbolizes God’s punishment for a sinful soul.
o Love for all living things.
o Showing love for God’s creations can relieve the sins of a sinful
soul.
o The moral tone “ He prayeth well who loveth well, Both man and
bird and beast.
8. Poetic devices
o 15 stanzas in part IV.
oThe stanzas are usually four, five & six lines long.
oOdd lines are tetrameter & even lines are generally trimeter.
oThe rhymes generally organized in an ABCB, ABAB & ABAAB
scheme.