The document summarizes the plot of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". It describes how the Ancient Mariner stops a wedding guest and tells the story of his doomed sea voyage. The Mariner describes how his ship encountered a storm after leaving port and became trapped in ice until an albatross appeared and led them to calm waters. However, the Mariner then shot the albatross with his crossbow, angering the crew who saw it as their savior. The ship was then plagued by mist, drought, and sea creatures as punishment for the killing. The Mariner's tale explains why he now stops guests to share his story.

1. Prepare a P.P.T changing the
poem into a story. The P.P.T
must have images related to the
story as well as lines from the
poem that match those images .

2. 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.
Throughout his adult life Coleridge had
crippling bouts of anxiety and depression; it
has been speculated that he had
bipolar disorder, which had not been defined
during his lifetime.[1]
He was physically
unhealthy, which may have stemmed from a
bout of rheumatic fever and other childhood
illnesses. He was treated for these conditions
with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium

4. It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
'By thy long grey beard and
glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
The Bridegroom's doors are
opened wide,
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.
'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard
loon!'
Eftsoons his hand dropt he.

5. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient
man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.
The ship was cheered, the harbour
cleared,
Merrily did we drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.
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.

6. The bride hath paced into the hall,
Red as a rose is she;
Nodding their heads before her
goes
The merry minstrelsy.
The Wedding-Guest he beat his
breast,
Yet he cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient
man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.
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,

7. And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
And through the drifts the snowy clifts
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:
It cracked and growled, and roared and
howled,
Like noises in a swound!
At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.

8. 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 steered us through!
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
I shot the ALBATROSS.

10. The Sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play
Came to the mariner's hollo!
And I had done a hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!
Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.

11. The fair breeze blew, the white foam
flew,
The furrow followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Down dropt the breeze, the sails
dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,

12. Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl
with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at
night;

13. And some in dreams assurèd were
Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
Nine fathom deep he had followed us
From the land of mist and snow.
And every tongue, through utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
We had been choked with soot.
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.

16. In thepoem'sfirst line, wemeet itsprotagonist, "an ancient
Mariner." Hestopsoneof threepeopleon their way to awedding
celebration. The Wedding Guest, triesto resist being stopped by
thestrangeold man with the"long grey beard and glittering eye."
Heexplainsthat heison hisway to enjoy thewedding merriment;
heistheclosest relativeto thegroom, and thefestivitieshad
already begun. Still, the Ancient Mariner holdshishand and
beginshisstory. TheWedding Guest wascaptured by the
glimmering eyesand had no choicebut to sit down on arock to
listen.

20. The Ancient Mariner explains that on a clear and bright day, he set out to
sail on a ship full of happy seamen. The ship departed from the harbor
after a warm and cheerful goodbye. They were sailing southwards. They
sailed along smoothly until they reached the equator. The sun was bright
and it was a sunny weather. Suddenly, the sounds of the wedding interrupt
the Ancient Mariner's story. The Wedding Guest beats his chest
impatiently as the graceful and blushing bride enters the reception hall and
music plays. However, he is compelled to continue listening to the Ancient
Mariner, who goes on with his tale. As soon as the ship reached the
equator, a dreadful and terrible storm hit and forced the ship southwards.
The storm was like a gigantic bird flapping his wings towards the ship.
The ship was floating with sloping masts as the waves were huge. The
wind blew with such force that the ship pitched down in the surf as
though it were fleeing an enemy.

24. Then the sailors reached a calm patch of sea that was
"wondrous cold", full of snow and glistening green icebergs as
tall as the ship's mast. The sailors were the only living things
in this frightening, enclosed world where the ice made terrible
groaning sounds that echoed all around. Finally, an Albatross
emerged from the mist, and the sailors revered it as a sign of
good luck, as though it were a "Christian soul" sent by God to
save them. No sooner than the sailors fed the Albatross did the
ice break apart, allowing the captain to steer out of the freezing
world. The wind picked up again, and continued for nine days.
All the while, the Albatross followed the ship, ate the food the
sailors gave it, and played with them. At this point, the
Wedding Guest notices that the Ancient Mariner looks at once
grave and crazed. He exclaims: "God save thee, ancient
Mariner! / From the fiends that plague thee thus!- / Why
lookst thou so?" The Ancient Mariner responds that he shot
the Albatross with his crossbow.

26. Theship sailed northward into thePacific Ocean, and
although thesun shoneduring theday and thewind
remained strong, themist held fast. Theother sailors
wereangry with the Ancient Mariner for killing
the Albatross, which they believed had saved them
from theicy world by summoning thewind: "Ah
wretch! Said they, thebird to slay / That madethe
breezeto blow!" Then themist disappeared and thesun
shoneparticularly brightly, "likeGod'sown head." The
sailorssuddenly changed their opinion. They decided
that theAlbatrossmust havebrought themust, and
praisetheAncient Mariner for having killed it and rid
them of themist: "Twasright, said they, such birdsto
slay, / That bring thefog and mist."

29. The ship sailed along merrily until it entered an
uncharted part of the ocean, and the wind
disappeared. The ship could not move, and sat "As
idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean." Then the
sun became unbearably hot just as the sailors ran out
of water. This brings out the irony in their situation,
they all are surrounded by water from every side but
they didn’t have even a drop to drink freshwater. The
ocean became a horrifying place; the water churned
with "slimy" creatures, and at night, eerie fires seemed
to burn on the ocean's surface. Some of the sailors
dreamed that an evil spirit had followed them from the
icy world, and they all suffered from a thirst so terrible
that they could not speak. Because of being thirsty
they had started imagining awful things. So, to accuse
the Ancient Mariner for his crime, to place the guilt on
him and him alone and as a remembrance of his crime
the sailors hung the Albatross's dead carcass around
his neck.

31. Made by -
Vanshika Maheshwari
Drishti Madan
Lakshay Goel
Sanskar Sethi
Sunandan Kaushik