The document summarizes the plot of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". It describes how an ancient mariner stops a wedding guest and tells him the story of his journey. The mariner's ship is driven south by a storm and they encounter albatrosses, but the mariner shoots one, dooming the ship. All of the crew die except the mariner, who is cursed to wander telling his story as a warning to others. In the end, the wedding guest is deeply moved and leaves sadder but wiser after hearing the mariner's tale.

1. The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2. An Ancient Mariner
stops one (of three)
on his way to a
wedding.
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner

3. “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!”
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner

4. The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
The wedding
guest is
mesmerized by
the Mariner’s
passion and
begins listening to
the story.

5. The Mariner’s Tale:
Their ship is driven
south, by a storm, to
a place of “mist and
snow.”
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner

6. Surrounded by
ice.
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Ancient Mariner

7. An albatross
appears.
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Ancient Mariner

8. The albatross
leads them out
of the fog.
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Ancient Mariner

9. The Mariner shoots the
albatross. At first the
crew condemns him, but
when a favorable breeze
appears, they justify his
action. This implicates
them in his crime.
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Ancient Mariner

10.  Later, the wind stops and
the ship is stranded for
days, “As idle as a painted
ship upon a painted ocean.”
 “Water, water, every where,
and all the boards did
shrink; Water, water, every
where, nor any drop to
drink.”
 The crew blames the
Mariner for no wind and
hangs the albatross around
his neck as punishment.
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Ancient Mariner

11. A ghost ship
approaches with
a Specter-
Woman and her
Death-Mate as
crew.
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Ancient Mariner

12. “Death” and “Life
in Death” roll dice
for the lives of
the ship’s crew.
“Life in Death”
wins.
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Ancient Mariner

13. “Each turned his face
with a ghastly pang, and
cursed me with his eye”
“With heavy thump, a
lifeless lump, they
dropped down one by
one.”
“The souls did from their
bodies fly, - They fled to
bliss or woe! And every
soul, it passed me by,
Like the whizz of my
cross-bow!”
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner

14. “Alone, alone, all,
all alone, alone on a
wide wide sea! And
never a saint took
pity on my soul in
agony.”
“Seven days, seven
nights, I saw that
curse, and yet I
could not die.”
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner

15. “Beyond the shadow
of the ship, I
watched the water-
snakes”
“O happy living
things! No tongue
their beauty might
declare: A spring of
love gushed from
my heart, and I
blessed them
unaware”
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Ancient Mariner

16. The curse is lifted
and the albatross
falls from his neck
and sinks “like
lead into the sea.”
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Ancient Mariner

17. The dead men
awaken and the
Mariner directs
his ghostly crew
North.
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Ancient Mariner

18. As the Mariner returns
to his home port, the
spirits of his crew leave
their bodies.
He receives forgiveness
(shrieve) from a hermit.
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Ancient Mariner

19. The Mariner’s
ship sinks.
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Ancient Mariner

20. The story
concluded, the
wedding guest
leaves “a sadder
and a wiser
man.”
The Mariner
must tell his tale
to warn others
(redemption).
The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner