ancient mariner

3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). It was first
published in Lyrical Ballads, with a few other
poems in 1798. The Lyrical Ballads were written
And published jointly by Coleridge and his good
friend William Wordsworth (1770-1850) by whom most of
the poems were written. The first version of the poem was
entitled The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, and much of the
spelling was very archaic (old-fashioned) even at that time. In 1800
the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads appeared, with another
volume of poems to accompany the first. Coleridge, at
Wordsworth's suggestion, had modernized much of the spelling and
the title appeared in the form at the head of this page.

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an
English poet, literary critic and philosopher
who, with his friend William Wordsworth,
was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of
the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia
Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly
influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to
English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and
phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence
on Emerson and American transcendentalism.

5. KUBLA KHAN CHRISTABLE LIMBO
TO LORD STANHOPE

6. Coleridge’s masterpiece, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, was
first published as part of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which
thereby secured its position as one of the landmark poems of its
age, despite its archaic ballad form. Structured as a frame
narrative, the poem begins with the Mariner’s detaining a guest
on his way to a wedding with the spellbinding account of a most
strange ocean voyage. The Mariner tells of a southbound voyage
to the Antarctic. He describes how the ship, as it clears the
horizon, ominously dips below the church and below all of civilized
and conventional authority, descending toward the unknown, the
wild, and the hellish.

7. Reaching the frozen, seemingly blank,
polar world, the sailors call to and feed a
white albatross, a large seabird, as an
apparent friend or messenger from another
realm. The Mariner inexplicably shoots it,
sacrificing it, innocent and pure, with his crossbow
(echoing Easter imagery). Thereupon, the ship idles
without wind to move it while the superstitious crew
grows increasingly thirsty and hangs the dead bird around the
Mariner’s neck to punish him for his cruelty, which
they feel in some way has stalled their trip.

8. The Rhyme Scheme of this poem is ABCB
It is an ancient Mariner , A
And he stoppeth one of three. B
'By thy long grey beard and glittering C
eye,Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? B
And now there came both mist and snow, A
And it grew wondrous cold: B
And ice, mast-high, came floating by, C
As green as Emerald B

12. Three – me
Kin – din
Met – set
Still – will
Hear – mariner
Cheered – cleared
Drop – top
He – sea
Bright – right
Noon – bassoon
Strong – along
Prow – blow
Head – fled
Cold – emerald
High – by
Drifts – clifts
Sheen – between
Around – swound
Growled - howled

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