The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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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)

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Part the FirstTPCASST

• 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
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Part the SecondTPCASST

• 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

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Part the Third

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Part the FourthLanguage

• How does the repetition in line 240 243
  emphasize the starkness of the Mariners
  situation?

• What effect is created by the repetition in line
  250? How does this mirror the Mariners
  situation?

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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.
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The Ancient Mariners emotionsUse quotes to
support your graph
Joy Relief Fear Despair

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  10 11 12 13 14
• Stanzas

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Lights, camera........ACTION!Create a
storyboard for Part the Fifth
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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?

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Part the SixthComplete the Hero Cycle for the
story so far
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Archetype Search
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• 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 _____________________________
  _____.

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• 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.

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

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• 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."

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• Write your own mariner legend incorporating
  elements from the The Rime of Ancient Mariner
• 1 page minimum