Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part V

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Rime of the Ancient MarinerPart V

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Auto-Biography

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St.
  Mary on 21 October 1772.
• Coleridge, English lyrical poet, critic, and
  philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads, written with
  William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic
  movement.
• Suffering from neuralgic and rheumatic pains,
  Coleridge had become addicted to opium.

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Rime of the Ancient MarinerPart V

• "Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved
  from pole to pole!
• To Mary Queen the praise be given!
• She sent the gentle sleep from heaven, That
  slid into my soul.
• The silly buckets on the deck,
• That had so long remained,
• I dreamt that they were filled with dew
• And when I awoke, it rained.

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• My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My
  garments all were dankSure I had drunken in my
  dreams,And still my body drank.I moved, and
  could not feel my limbsI was so light -almostI
  thought that I had died in sleep,And was a
  blessed ghost.

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• And soon I heard a roaring windIt did not
  come anearBut with its sound it shook the
  sails,That were so thin and sere.The upper air
  burst into life!And a hundred fire-flags
  sheen,To and fro they were hurried about!And to
  and fro, and in and out,The wan stars danced
  between.

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• And the coming wind did roar more loud,And
  the sails did sigh like sedgeAnd the rain
  poured down from one black cloudThe moon was at
  its edge.The thick black cloud was cleft, and
  stillThe moon was at its sideLike waters shot
  from some high crag,The lightning fell with
  never a jag,A river steep and wide.

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• The loud wind never reached the ship,Yet now
  the ship moved on!Beneath the lightning and the
  moonThe dead men gave a groan.They groaned,
  they stirred, they all uprose,Nor spake, nor
  moved their eyesIt had been strange, even in a
  dream,To have seen those dead men rise.

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• The helmsman steered, the ship moved onYet
  never a breeze up blewThe mariners all 'gan
  work the ropes,Where they were wont to doThey
  raised their limbs like lifeless tools - We were
  a ghastly crew.The body of my brother's
  sonStood by me, knee to kneeThe body and I
  pulled at one rope,But he said nought to me."

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• I fear thee, ancient Mariner!'"Be calm, thou
  Wedding-Guest!'Twas not those souls that fled in
  pain,Which to their corses came again,But a
  troop of spirits blestFor when it dawned -they
  dropped their arms,And clustered round the
  mastSweet sounds rose slowly through their
  mouths,And from their bodies passed.

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• Around, around, flew each sweet sound,Then
  darted to the sunSlowly the sounds came back
  again,Now mixed, now one by one.Sometimes
  a-dropping from the skyI heard the skylark
  singSometimes all little birds that are,How
  they seemed to fill the sea and airWith their
  sweet jargoning!

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• And now 'twas like all instruments,Now like a
  lonely fluteAnd now it is an angel's song,That
  makes the heavens be mute.It ceased yet still
  the sails made onA pleasant noise till noon,A
  noise like of a hidden brookIn the leafy month
  of June,That to the sleeping woods all
  nightSingeth a quiet tune.

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• Till noon we quietly sailed on,Yet never a
  breeze did breatheSlowly and smoothly went the
  ship,Moved onward from beneath.Under the keel
  nine fathom deep,From the land of mist and
  snow,The spirit slid and it was heThat made
  the ship to go.The sails at noon left off their
  tune,And the ship stood still also.

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• The sun, right up above the mast,Had fixed
  her to the oceanBut in a minute she 'gan
  stir,With a short uneasy motion - Backwards and
  forwards half her lengthWith a short uneasy
  motion.Then like a pawing horse let go,She
  made a sudden boundIt flung the blood into my
  head,And I fell down in a swound.

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• How long in that same fit I lay,I have not to
  declareBut ere my living life returned,I heard
  and in my soul discernedTwo voices in the
  air.Is it he?' quoth one, Is this the man?By
  him who died on cross,With his cruel bow he laid
  full lowThe harmless Albatross.

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• The spirit who bideth by himselfIn the land of
  mist and snow,He loved the bird that loved the
  manWho shot him with his bow.'The other was a
  softer voice,As soft as honey-dewQuoth he,
  The man hath penance done,And penance more will
  do.'

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Literal Sense

• The marine is happy that he is able to sleep.
• While he slept the rain came and he got soaking
  wet
• The wedding guests were possessed by spirits and
  were scared
• The ship moved forward driven by spirits from the
  land and mist moving back and forward

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• The mom over powered the sea and moved the ship
  forward
• The wedding guests were afraid of the ancient
  marine
• From the bodies of the dead sailors came spirits
  as they sang
• The mariner was filled with guilt about killing
  the albatross
• But he softly said he did penance for killing the
  bird

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2. What is the diction of the poem?

• Formal, Abstract, Vague, Obsolete words
• It creates vivid expressions by explaining
  through out the poem

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3. What are the tone and mood of the poem?

• The tone of the mood is very deep, dark and
  guilty.
• No irony
• The poem intended readers to sympathize with him.

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4. What is the rhetorical situation implied by
the poem?

• The main story the VOYAGE
• Narratorsailor
• Readers are listening to his story about killing
  a bird. The narrator is at the wedding telling
  the guests about his journey.

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Figurative Language

• Simile the comparison of one thing with
  something else using like or as.
• Ex) They raised their limbs like lifeless tools

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Imagery

• Weather The Good, The Bad, The Icy, The Dry
• Water the Christian symbol of life but in
  part 2 it is an image of death
• The cross the consciousness of the ma riner'
  s sin

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Symbolism- The Sun, The Moon, The Star

• VI.100 The image of the moon shining in the dead
  sailors' eyes cements the moon's power in this
  poem
• The description of external landscapes
  symbolizes the mariner' s inner feelings

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Symbolism- Albatross

• II.24 The albatross becomes the defining symbol
  of the Mariner's big mistake. As a symbol of the
  burden of sin, it is compared explicitly to the
  cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified.

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Symbolism- The Religious and the Supernatural

• V.67 Sleep is mythologized as a gift from the
  Virgin Mary.

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Structure of the Poem

• This is a narrative poem.
• The poem has 26 stanzas.
• There is an unique pattern of rhyme.
• Most of the stanzas in the poem have four lines
  several have five or six lines. In the four-line
  stanzas, the second and fourth lines usually
  rhyme.
• Ex The spirit who bideth by himself In the
  land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that
  loved the man Who shot him with his bow.' The
  other was a softer voice, As soft as
  honey-dew Quoth he, The man hath penance
  done, And penance more will do.

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Personal Reflection

• The poem was too long. (TOO long..)
• Our poem section was in between other sections of
  the poem so it was hard to interpret.
• It was more likely a story.

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