The ancient mariner is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this poem, he talks about an old sailor who happened to stop one of the three wedding guests to listen to his woeful tale. The wedding guest was bewitched by the mariner's glittering eye and he sat down to hear his narrative of his disastrous journey he undertook.

3. Form of the poem
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is written in loose, short ballad
stanzas usually comprises of four to six lines long and sometimes nine
lines long. The meter is also somewhat loose, but odd lines are generally
tetrameter, while even lines are generally trimeter. (There are
exceptions: In a five-line stanza, for instance, lines one, three, and four
are likely to have four accented syllables—tetrameter—while lines two
and five have three accented syllables.) The rhymes generally alternate
in an ABAB or ABABAB scheme, though again there are many exceptions;
the nine-line stanza in Part III, for instance, rhymes AABCCBDDB. Many
stanzas include couplets in this way—five-line stanzas, for example, are
rhymed ABCCB, often with an internal rhyme in the first line, or ABAAB,
without the internal rhyme.

4. The ancient mariner stopped one of the three
wedding guests with his mesmerizing look.

5. The bride entered the hall as red as rose and the
wedding began

6. The wedding guest started listening to the
ancient mariner since he had no other
alternative

7. The Ancient
Mariner began his
story :
“Our ship left the
port”

8. Every body seemed
to be in a joyous
mood.

9. We sailed out and watched
the church, the hill, and the
town lighthouse

10. A storm struck the ship

11. The storm chased the ship like a dreadful enemy to
Antarctica

12. We start to see huge icebergs that look green in
the clear water.

13. Our ship got lost in icebergs

14. there were no people or
animals in sight

15. An albatross bird appeared

16. The sailors were happy
to see another living
creature except them
They hailed it in God’s
name

17. the ice that had trapped
them splits wide enough
apart for the ship to sail
through.

18. The sailors feed the
bird, and it started
following them

19. The ancient Mariner
inhospitably killed the
pious bird for good omen
Everyone on the ship
went against the mariner

20. The weather suddenly
improved, the fog and
mist went away
The sailors began to
blame the bird for past
conditions

21. The weather started
becoming dreadful
The wind
stopped

22. The sun shone very brightly

23. Everyone felt very thirsty
but they couldn’t find
water. They felt that they
were going to die

24. The ship stood still as a ‘painted
ship’ on a ‘painted ocean’.

25. Water surface turns "slimy" and gross,
slimy creatures start to appear.

26. About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch’s oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.

27. The mariners blamed the
ancient mariner for this
change
As a punishment the dead
albatross was hung around
his neck

28. The ancient mariner
saw a sail coming
towards them
But his mouth was
too dry to utter even
a single word

30. As the ship approached
,the mariner saw the
crew consists of only
two people: Death and
Life-in-Death.

31. Suddenly, everyone on
the ship began to die.

32. They don't make a fuss
but kind of just slump
over.

33. Everyone on the ship
except the ancient
mariner died

34. the eyes of the dead
sailors emanate terrible
curse which was worse
than the curse of a little
orphan

35. The sail went away………..

36. At night, the moon rose again, and
the moonlight fell on the ship like
frost.

37. He looked at the
water snakes
swimming in the
shadow of his ship

38. He kind of got excited
watching the snakes. He
realized that those
hideous snakes were
kind of beautiful.
Without knowing it, he
blessed the wriggly little
creatures in his heart.

39. “ The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.”
The curse on the
mariner broke and the
albatross dropped off
his neck

40. Not only can he pray
again, but he can also
sleep again.
Exhausted from all the
endless cursing and
dying of thirst, he falls
asleep.

41. When he woke up it rained.The
Mariner had all the water he needed.

42. The angels fill the
bodies of dead
sailors

43. The dead sailors rose
up amid the thunder
and lightning. They
looked like zombies
and didn't say a word
but all did the jobs
they were supposed
to do, helping to sail
the ship.

44. The spirits float around
the ship and sing like
birds.

45. The ship stopped and
then moved with a
sudden jerk that made
mariner fall

46. He heard two voices
talking to each other

47. The first voice was
curious while the
second voice was
knowledgeable.
They explained how
ship was moving with
the help of
supernatural force
pushing it without
wind

48. The Mariner ends up back at
the port from which he left long
ago.

49. The ocean returned
to its normal colour.
It was a beautiful
sight, and naturally,
the Mariner was
overjoyed.

50. All the dead men who
had come back to life
to sail the ship went
back to being dead,
and the angels were
standing beside their
bodies.

51. The Mariner saw a
boat coming toward
the ship.

52. The ship began to sink

53. A oarsman and his
young crewmate were
coming to rescue him.

54. The ancient mariner got
on the boat and met the
‘Hermit’

55. The ship sank like
lead in to the sea.
Under the water it rumbled on,
Still louder and more dread:
It reach’d the ship, it split the bay;
The ship went down like lead.

56. The Mariner looked
forward to the hermit
clearing away his sins
by asking him
questions, by ‘shriving’
his soul, like a
confession.

57. The hermit compared
everything to the forest.

58. As soon as he told the
story to the hermit, he
felt a lot better.

59. the Mariner explained to the
Wedding Guest that he often
had this painful feeling that he
needed to get the story off his
chest, and the pain persists until
he tells it.

60. He said that it's much better to
walk to church with a friend
than to go to a marriage feast.
He wants to see the entire
community bow down in
prayer.
The Wedding Guest was totally
confused, as if he had lost his
senses He waked up the next day
as "a sadder and a wiser man."

61. SUMMARY PART - 1
Three young men are walking together to a wedding, when one of them is detained by a
greyish old sailor. The young Wedding-Guest angrily demands that the Mariner let go of
him, and the Mariner obeys. But the young man is fascinated by the ancient Mariner’s
“glittering eye” . He could do nothing but sit on a stone and listen to his strange tale. The
Mariner says that he sailed on a ship out of his native harbour—”below the Kirk, below
the hill, / Below the lighthouse top”—and into a sunny and cheerful sea. Hearing bassoon
music drifting from the direction of the wedding, the Wedding-Guest imagines that the
bride has entered the hall, but he is still helpless to tear himself from the Mariner’s story.
The Mariner recalls that the voyage quickly darkened, as a giant storm rose up in the sea
and chased the ship southward. Quickly, the ship came to a distant land “of mist and
snow,” where “ice, mast-high, came floating by”; the ship was hemmed inside this maze
of ice. But then the sailors encountered an Albatross, a great sea bird. As it flew around
the ship, the ice cracked and split, and a wind from the south propelled the ship out of
the cold regions, into a foggy stretch of water. The Albatross followed behind it, a symbol
of good luck to the sailors. A pained look crosses the Mariner’s face, and the Wedding-
Guest asks him, “Why look's thou so?” The Mariner confesses that he shot and killed the
Albatross with his crossbow.

62. SUMMARY PART - 2
Initially, the other sailors were angry with the Mariner for having killed
the bird that made the breezes blow. But when the fog lifted soon
afterward, the sailors decided that the bird had actually brought the
fog but not the breezes. They now congratulated the Mariner on his
timely action. The wind pushed the ship into a silent sea where the
sailors were quickly stranded; the winds died down, and the ship was
“As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.” The ocean
thickened, and the men had no water to drink; as if the sea were
rotting, slimy creatures crawled out of it and walked across the surface.
At night, the water burned green, blue, and white with death fire.
Some of the sailors dreamed that a spirit, nine fathoms deep, followed
them beneath the ship from the land of mist and snow. The sailors
blamed the Mariner for their plight and hung the corpse of the
Albatross around his neck like a cross.

63. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is unique among
Coleridge’s important works. It is unique in the following
parameters:
•intentionally archaic language (“Eftsoons his hand drops
he”),
• its length,
•its bizarre moral narrative,
•its strange scholarly notes printed in small type in the
margins,
•its thematic ambiguity,
•the long Latin epigraph that begins it, concerning the
multitude of unclassifiable “invisible creatures” that inhabit
the world.
•its peculiarities make it quite atypical of its era
• its little likeness with other Romantic works.

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