Part 1 Flashcards
Summary of what happens in part 1
Introduction to mariner/ crew/ wedding guest.
Positive setting/ energy represented by nice weather.
Quick change in setting as storms come.
Ice causes boat to be in isolation.
Albatross helps crew out of isolation/ entrapment.
Crime happens.
What is the change to bad weather due to?
Travels are extensive
They have transgressed
What does the title Rime of the Ancient Mariner suggest ?
Didactic/ allegory
Archaic words to reinforce the idea the tale has lived on since older times.
Play on the word ‘rime’ as it is a poem which uses rhyme but it also means frost formed on cold objects which would have been on the boat in the cold conditions.
When was it written ?
1834
First line of the poem ?
“Ancient mariner”
Introduced to primary character.
He is old and his punishment is still ongoing with age
In the first stanza what do we find out about the mariner?
He has a “long grey beard and glittering eye”
Beard = old Eye = supernatural
(“Skinny Hand”)
Significance of eye
“He hold him with his glittering eye”
Compels the wedding guest to listen to his tale, entrapped.
Perpetual suffering / atonement the mariner does - re tell tale
Does the wedding guest listen ?
“Listens like a 3 years child”
“He cannot choose but hear”
Trapped / powerless
What was the ship initially like ?
“The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop”
Setting sail - transgression
Pathetic fallacy
“The sun came up upon the left… and he shone bright”
Personification of weather
What phrase is repeated?
“The bright eyed mariner”
How is there a change in setting ?
“The storm blast came, and he was tyrannous and strong… he chased us south along”
Personified
Transgression
Cold / suffering from the weather
“Must and snow and it grew wondrous cold”
“The ive was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around”
Personification of ice
“It cracked and growled, and roared and howled”
Suffering / isolation
Punishment for travelling too far.
What does Coleridge refer the albatross to ?
“A Christian soul, we hailed it in God’s name”
Religion.
Pantheism.
Nature.
