Part 4 Flashcards
Wedding guest fears the mariner/ mythical creature / ancient
“I fear thee, ancient mariner! I fear thy skinny hand!!… and thy glittering eye”
Mariner reassures guest he isn’t dead
Not allowed to die
“This body dropt not down”
Isolated mariner
Guilt
Suffering
Punishment
“Alone, alone all all alone alone on a wide wide sea!”
“My soul in agony”
STILL not learned to appreacige nature so he will continue to suffer
“1000 1000 slimy things lived on”
“I looked upon the rotting sea”
Can’t pray
God rejected him as he transgressed by killing gods creature but also because he doesn’t appreciate nature - he hasn’t atoned properly
“I looked to heaven and tried to pray; but or ever a prayer has gusht”
Mariner unable to love
“My heart as dry as dust”
How does mariner suffering in terms of dead crew?
The dead soldiers “were at my feet”
“Cold sweat melted from their limbs”
Consumed by his crime : guilt form of punishment
He caused the death of crew so should realise what he created due to callous actions
Perpetual suffering / punishment / purgatory/ biblical reference
Can’t escape his crime
“The curse in a dead mans eye! Seven days seven nights I saw that curser and yet I could not die “
Movement of redemption for mariner / appreciates gods creatures
“O happy living things! No tongue their beauty might declare a spring of love gushed from my heart”
Religious
Salvation
Has god forgiven him
“Selfsame moment I could pray and from my neck so free the albatross fell off, and sank like lead into the sea”
