The document provides a biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and an analysis of his famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." It details key events in Coleridge's life and literary works. It then analyzes the structure, themes, and symbols within "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," including the killing of the albatross, the punishment endured by the crew, and the mariner's redemption. Literary devices like meter, figures of speech, and the differences between Coleridge and Wordsworth's philosophies are also summarized.

1. Was born in
Devonshire,in 1772
1782,father’s death
In 1794,met Robert Southey
In 1796 he moved to Nether Stowey, where his
friiendship with William and Dorothy Wordsworth
In 1798-99 Coleridge and Wordsworths visited
Germany
In 1801 he began to increase the opium doses he
had been taking
From 1804 to 1806 he stayed in
Malta
From 1808 to 1813 he devoted
himself to lecturing
In 1810 he settled in
London
In 1834 he
died.

2. Coleridge’s literary production was
exceptionally varied since,among other
things,he occupied himself with translation
from Germann,essay on philosophy,religion
and politics.
•Poems on various subjects
•Christabel
•Kubla Khan
•The rime of the Ancient Mariner
•Dejection:an Ode
•Biographia Literaria
•Lectures on Shakespeare

3. Ballad structure and themes
Medieval setting
Mistery and supernatural
Nature
Exoticism
Music

4. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
 Coleridge wrote four poems in the Lyrical
Ballads
 The rime of the ancient mariner was written
in 1797/1798
 it was published as the opening poem of the
Lyrical Ballads
 it exceed Wordsworth’s work

5. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER HAS
DIFFERENTS INTERPRETATIONS:
 A dream induced by optium
 A personal version of a shipwreck the
mariner survived
 An allegory of life
 A moral parable of man
 A symbol of the contrast between rationality
and irrationality

6. An old
sailor who
tells his
story.
During a
voyage the
mariner shoots
the albatross.
The others
sailor have
two reactions.
The sailors hang the
albatross around the
Mariner’s neck as a
sign of his sin.
‘Death’ and ‘Life-in-
Death’ are on the ship
and they play a game
of dice for the
mariner’s souls.
The Mariner
implore the Hermit
to free him of his
sin.
The ship nears
land, it is
approached by a
rowing boat -> the
pilot, his son and
a Hermit.

7. Story of sin,
punishment and
redemption.
The Sun and the Moon
symbolise a harsh and
judging God and a
benvolent forgiving
Father.
Killing of the albatross:
symbol of man’s sin
against God and his
creatures.
Death of the sailors
and the becalmed ship:
Symbols of God’s wrath
and punishment.
The sinner has to
pay his penance by
wandering the world
telling his story.

8. THE RIME OF THE
ANCIENT
MARINER
The mariner talks about his
story
and how he killed an
Albatros
Ballad
Seven parts
The killing of the
Albatros brings
misfortunes to the
crew
Supernatural
spirits
are angered
Ship’s blocked
under a
burning sun
Dead Albatros
hung around
The mariner’s
neck

9. SHIP APPROACHES
FROM WEST
Death and death-in-life are
onboard
Death wins The
crew’s souls
The
crew die
Death-in-life wins
mariner’s soul
The mariner is
saved
Travels from land
to land and tells
his story
People learn to
love and respect all
God’s creatures

11. Focus on the text.
The Mariner looks at the moon and the starry sky, hoping
they might shed a benevolement influence on the ship.
But the moon’s silver rays cannot break the spell and
within the ship’s shadow the water still burns an “awful
red”. The water snakes crawl around the ship but the
Mariner blesses them from his heart. In that moment the
albatross falls off his neck and into the sea.
The mariners aboard are dying of thirst when suddently another ship
appears: it is a ghost ship manned by Death and Life-in-Death. These two
play at dice with the crew's lives. He survives but is haunted by the dead
men's eyes. He gradually begins to feel compassion, especially as he
observes God's living creatures moving under the moonlight.

12. PART 4
[…]
The moving Moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside –
Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread;
But where the ship’s huge shadow lay,
The charmèd water burnt alway
A still and awful red.
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.
Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They a flash of golden fire.
5
10
1
5
allitteration

13. O happy living things! No tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
And I blessed them unware.
The self-same moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea.
20
2
5
repetition
repetition
simile

14. THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
IT is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, 5
And I am next of kin;
The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din.'
He holds him with his skinny hand,
'There was a ship,' quoth he. 10
'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
An ancient Mariner meeteth
three gallants bidden to a
wedding feast, and
detaineth one.

15. THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
15
The Mariner hath his will.
The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner. 20
'The ship was cheer'd, the harbour clear'd,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.
The Wedding-Guest is spell-
bound by the eye of the old
seafaring man, and
constrained to hear his tale.

16. THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
The Sun came up upon the left, 25
Out of the sea came he!
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea.
Higher and higher every day,
Till over the mast at noon——' 30
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For
he heard the loud bassoon.
The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her goes
35
The merry minstrelsy.
The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
40
The bright-eyed Mariner.
The Mariner tells how the
ship sailed southward with a
good wind and fair weather,
till it reached the Line.
The Wedding-Guest heareth
the bridal music; but the
Mariner continueth his tale.

17. THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
'And now the Storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong:
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
With sloping masts and dipping prow, 45
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast,
The southward aye we fled. 50
And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
The ship drawn by a storm toward the South
Pole.

18. THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
And through the drifts the snowy clifts 55
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
The ice was all between.
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around: 60
It crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and
howl'd,
Like noises in a swound!
At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
65
We hail'd it in God's name.
It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steer'd us through!
The land of ice, and of fearful
sounds, where no living thing was
to be seen.
Till a great sea-bird, called the
Albatross, came through the
snow-fog, and was received with
great joy and hospitality.

19. THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners' hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud, 75
It perch'd for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmer'd the white moonshine.'
'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— 80
Why look'st thou so?'—'With my crossbow
I shot the Albatross.
And lo! the Albatross proveth a
bird of good omen, and followeth
the ship as it returned northward
through fog and floating ice.
The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth
the pious bird of good omen.

20. METER
 The meter alternates between iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.
 The climax of the poem occurs when the mariner has a change of heart and
the albatross falls from his neck.
 Besides end rhyme, Coleridge also frequently uses internal rhyme.
Following are examples.
The guests are met, the feast is set (line 7)
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast (line 49)
And through the drifts the snowy clifts (line 55)
The ice did split with a thunder-fit (line 69)
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud (line 75)
 Coleridge occasionally uses enjambment, the practice of carrying the sense
of one line of verse over to the next line without a pause. Here are
examples:
And now the storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong (lines 41-42)

21. FIGURES OF SPEECH
 The poem is rich in figures of speech. Here are examples:
Alliteration
By thy long grey beard and glittering eye (line 3)
He holds him with his skinny hand (line 9)
The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
For he heard the loud bassoon. (lines 31-32)
The merry minstrelsy (line 36)
Anaphora
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around. (line 59-60)
Onomatopoeia
It crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd (line 61)
Personification
The Sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he !
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea. (lines 25-28)
Comparison of the sun to a person
'And now the Storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong(lines41-44)
The storm is the Albatross
Metaphor
Wings chased us.. (line44)
The wings is the strong wind

22. COLERIDGE-WORDSWORTH
THEY WORKED TOGETHER TO CREATE THE COLLECTION “LYRICAL BALLADS”
DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW ABOUT POETRY, NATURE AND IMAGINATION.
COLERIDGE WORDSWORTH
Imagination:
 Imagination is used to enrich simple
ideas in tranquility.
Nature:
 Pantheistic vision
Poetry:
 “emotion recollected in tranquility”
Imagination:
 capacity of perceive the world around
us, capacity of order those memories
and enrich them with supernatural.
Nature:
 a divine power; deeper symbolic
meaning
Poetry:
 product of unconscious; creates
ecstasy

23. SUBLIME
During 1800s
continued to define the
excellence..
A style of speech
wich is ethically
uplifting
Also it reffers to powerful,
overhelming feelings and
spiritual awe
It dominates the
latter part of 1800s
for the development
of the Gothic novel,
poetry and artWordsworth and Coleridge
were deeply affected by the
notion of the sublime in
relation to nature