This document provides guidance for analyzing a poem, including considering the type of poem, point of view, themes, and figurative language. It then outlines a framework called TPCASST for analyzing different parts of a poem through paraphrasing, predicting, questioning, commenting, clarifying, and connecting. Several other analysis areas are also listed such as archetypes, symbols, and character analysis techniques. The document concludes by suggesting writing a mariner legend incorporating elements from Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

2. Things to consider when reading
• Type of poem
– Epic?
– Narrative?
• Point of View
– First person? Second person? Third person?
• Themes
• Romantic elements (Look back in your notes)
• Figurative language (Laws Log of Literary Lingo)

3. Part the First
TPCASST
Paraphrase
Prediction – what is going to happen?
Question – why did he…
Comment - lit. devices (just jot a couple)
Clarify – at first I thought…..but now..
Connect – Text to text, or world, or self

4. Part the Second
TPCASST
Paraphrase
Prediction – what is going to happen?
Question – why did he…
Clarify – at first I thought…..but now..
Connect – Text to text, or world, or self
Connotation
Imagery – minus hearing
Sound
Language

5. Part the Third
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6. Part the Fourth
Language
• How does the repetition in line 240 – 243
emphasize the starkness of the Mariner’s
situation?
• What effect is created by the repetition in line
250? How does this mirror the Mariner’s
situation?

7. When the mariner
admires and feels love
for the snakes, he is
reconnected to the
forces of life.
THEREFORE, the dead
albatross (symbol of his
hatred and rejection of
nature) falls off.

8. The Ancient Mariner’s emotions
Use quotes to support your graph
Joy
Relief
Fear
Despair
1 2
3
4
5
6
7
8 9
Stanzas
10
11
12
13
14

9. Lights, camera.....…...ACTION!
Create a storyboard for Part the Fifth
Frame 1
(stanzas)
Visual images
Sound effects
Frame 2
(stanzas)
Visual images
Sound effects
Frame 3
(stanzas)
Visual images
Sound effects
Frame 4
(stanzas)
Visual images
Sound effects

10. Paraphrase
Prediction
Question
Comment
Clarify
Connect
Connotation
What is the effect of
each?
Attitude
Shifts

11. …and…
• Using techniques from Laws Log of Literary
Lingo, describe your favorite type of weather.
(1/2 page minimum)
• How do the voices at the end of Part the Fifth
contribute to the author's creation of a dream
world?

12. Part the Sixth
Complete the Hero Cycle for the story so far

13. Archetype Search

14. Good vs Evil
Red
Fate vs Free Will
Green
Heroism
White
Friendship/loyalty
Black
Common vs. Elite
Grey
Foreshadowing
Phallic images
Flashback
Concave images
Old woman
Fire
Old Man
Water
Numbers
Man vs. Man
Seasons
Man vs. self
Light/dark
Man vs. Nature
Hero cycle
Man vs. Society
Direct characterization
Quest for Glory
Indirect characterization
Quest for knowledge
Importance of lineage
Quest for power
Importance of reputation
Portrayal of Women

15. The Mariner continues telling his story to the Wedding-Guest. Free of
the curse of the Albatross, the Mariner was able to sleep, and as he did
so, the rains came, drenching him. The moon broke through the clouds,
and a host of spirits entered the dead men's bodies, which began to
move about and perform their old sailors' tasks. The ship was propelled
forward as the Mariner joined in the work. The Wedding-Guest declares
again that he is afraid of the Mariner, but the Mariner tells him that the
men's bodies were inhabited by blessed spirits, not cursed souls. At
dawn, the bodies________________________________
__________________________________________________________
____.
The spirits flew around the ship, singing. The ship continued to surge
forward until noon, driven by the spirit from the land of mist and snow,
nine fathoms deep in the sea. At noon, however, the ship stopped, then
began to move backward and forward as if it were trapped in a tug of
war. Finally, it broke free, and the Mariner
_______________________________________. He heard two
disembodied voices in the air; one asked ________________________,
and the other declared softly that
__________________________________.

16. In dialogue, the two voices discussed the situation. The
moon overpowered the sea, they said, and enabled the
ship to move; an angelic power moved the ship northward
at an astonishingly rapid pace. When the Mariner awoke
from his trance, he saw ____________________. But a
breeze rose up and propelled the ship back to its native
country, back to the Mariner's home; he recognized the
kirk, the hill, and the lighthouse. As they neared the bay,
seraphs--figures made of pure light--stepped out of the
corpses of the sailors, which fell to the deck. Each seraph
waved at the Mariner, who was powerfully moved. Soon,
he heard _________; the Pilot, the Pilot's son, and the holy
______ were __________. The Mariner hoped that the
Hermit could shrive (absolve) him of his sin, washing the
blood of the Albatross off his soul.

17. Part the Seventh
Why do you think Coleridge chose a
wedding at which to set his tale?
What is the Mariner’s life-long penance?
How does this align with the
characteristics of Romantic literature?
Why is this poem a good poem to study?

18. • The Hermit, a holy man who lived in the woods and loved
to talk to mariners from strange lands, had encouraged the
Pilot and his son not to be afraid and to row out to the ship.
But as they reached the Mariner's ship, it sank in a sudden
whirlpool, leaving the Mariner afloat and the Pilot's
rowboat spinning in the wake. The Mariner was loaded
aboard the Pilot's ship, and the Pilot's boy, mad with terror,
laughed hysterically and declared that the devil knows how
to row. On land, the Mariner begged the Hermit to shrive
him, and the Hermit bade the Mariner tell his tale. Once it
was told, the Mariner was free from the agony of his guilt.
However, the guilt returned over time and persisted until
the Mariner traveled to a new place and told his tale again.
The moment he comes upon the man to whom he is
destined to tell his tale, he knows it, and he has no choice
but to relate the story then and there to his appointed
audience; the Wedding-Guest is one such person.

19. • The church doors burst open, and the
wedding party streams outside. The Mariner
declares to the Wedding-Guest that he who
loves all God's creatures leads a happier,
better life; he then takes his leave. The
Wedding-Guest walks away from the party,
stunned, and awakes the next morning "a
sadder and a wiser man."

20. Write your own mariner legend incorporating
elements from the “The Rime of Ancient
Mariner”
1 page minimum