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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.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
The mariner hath his will. The wedding-guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed mariner. "The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop. Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.
The poem’s main text concerns an anonymous elderly Mariner who draws a young man away from his companion’s wedding celebration to tell him a story. This story recounts his experience of wrongfully killing an albatross and the harrowing spiritual journey that followed.
Jan 26, 2013 · THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. IN SEVEN PARTS. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Contents. PART THE FIRST. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? "The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set:
A summary of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Parts I-IV in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Coleridge’s Poetry. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Coleridge’s Poetry and what it means.
Jul 26, 2024 · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, poem in seven parts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that first appeared in Lyrical Ballads, published collaboratively by Coleridge and William Wordsworth in 1798. The title character detains one of three young men on their way to a wedding feast and mesmerizes him with.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a narrative-driven ballad written by the British Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem centers on an anonymous Mariner (sailor) who recounts a story about how he once wrongfully killed an albatross and went on a harrowing spiritual journey to right this wrong.
After Life-in-Death wins the soul of the Mariner, the Sailors begin to die of thirst, falling to the deck one by one, each staring at the Mariner in reproach. Surrounded by the dead Sailors and cursed continuously by their gaze, the Mariner tries to turn his eyes to heaven to pray, but fails.
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a lyrical ballad narrated by an old sailor about a mysterious sea journey.
