The Rime of the Ancient Mariner BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Argument How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. PART I It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore
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An Ancient Mariner, unnaturally old and skinny, with deeply-tanned skin and a "glittering eye", stops a Wedding Guest who is on his way to a wedding reception with two companions. He tries to resist the Ancient Mariner, who compels him to sit and listen to his woeful tale. One day when he was younger, the Ancient Mariner set sail with two hundred other sailors from his native land. The day was sunny and clear, and all were in high spirits until the ship reached the equator. Suddenly, a terrible storm
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In the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the significance of the line on the equator is a defining point in which the climax takes place, and where interpretations of the text provides an understanding of the Mariner’s troubles. The line is a literal representation of the hero’s journey when he is passing back out again from his home to the South Pole. Without the line, one cannot see the dichotomy between the supernatural worlds, and the natural world, and the hero’s
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young men are walking together to a wedding, when one of them is detained by a grizzled old sailor. The young Wedding-Guest angrily demands that the Mariner let go of him, and the Mariner obeys. But the young man is transfixed by the ancient Mariner's "glittering eye" and can do nothing but sit on a stone and listen to his strange tale. The Mariner says that he sailed on a ship out of his native harbor--"below the kirk, below the hill, / Below the lighthouse top"--and into a sunny and cheerful sea
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The narrative Rime of the Ancient Mariner mysteriously attracts the reader’s attention in the same way that the Mariner caught the attention of the wedding guest. From the beginning to the very end, it is indisputable that Coleridge’s story was vastly different than any other work of literature. However, in a unique way, the story connects with the reader through common elements. Bowra, who wrote about the unique traits of the story, refers to it as an unordinary work of art that uses its sharp,
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Mariner shoots and murders the albatross that was going along with the crew on their voyage. The Mariner shoots the albatross on a thought it was bad luck, as before the albatross joined on the journey, they had smooth sailing, but when the albatross arrived on their ship, the winds stopped and the ship was left in the freezing water stranded by themselves. The Mariner decided to exterminate the albatross thinking that it had brought bad luck to the ship, instead
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once. In the end of it all i did come across a few stories that i enjoyed, The World is too much with us, To a Mouse, Chaucer, Fears, and Rime of the Ancient Mariner. These stories told me something in a different way that anyone could of told me and not that the outcome would be different but the story puts it in a different type of view. Rime of the Ancient Mariners talked to us
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is not an uncommon theme for man to try and gain as much knowledge as possible. This desire for knowledge blinds one from seeing the possibly fatal consequences of their actions. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, Samuel Taylor’s poem Rime of The Ancient Mariner, and Percy Shelley’s poem Ozymandias character’s all exercise the matter of knowledge and it’s correlation with nature. Knowledge is defined as one’s understanding of a topic or information. By this definition, the acquirement of knowledge
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the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner to give correlations which give the reader a more profound comprehension and association with Frankenstein and its characters. In Frankenstein, Shelley refers to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner several times throughout her novel. In letter 2, chapter 5, Victor goes to the arctic to eventually find his creature. The mariner, Robert is also in the arctic. Victor Frankenstein feared deep down the monster he had created. In addition, the mariner moreso, feared
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Allegory in Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems to be more like a miniscule adventurous story. However, not only it is a ballad depicting the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for the entirety of his life because he kills an albatross; even deeper than that, it is also a religious allegory that conveys a plethora of themes pertaining to Christianity. On one hand, if a person were to read "The Rime of the Ancient
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