Transcript Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part 2

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part 2
Elizabeth Hodges
Chantelle Lafrance
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Coleridge, Samuel T. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 2 by
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The Sun now rose upon the right:
Out of the sea came he,
Still hid in mist, and on the left
Went down into the sea.
And the good south wind still
blew behind
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play
Came to the mariners' hollo!
And I had done an hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the
bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to
slay
That made the breeze to blow!
Nor dim nor red, like God's own
head,
The glorious Sun uprist:
Then all averred, I had killed the
bird
That brought the fog and mist.
'Twas right, said they, such birds
to slay,
That bring the fog and mist.
The fair breeze blew, the white
foam flew,
The furrow followed free:
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
Poem:
Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt
down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at
night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and
white.
And some in dreams assured
were
Of the spirit that plagued us so:
Nine fathom deep he had
followed us
From the land of mist and
snow.
And every tongue, through
utter drought,
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more
than if
We had been choked with soot.
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the
Albatross
About my neck was hung.
Paraphrase
The sun rises and sets in the fog. The south wind continues,
but there is no flying bird. The other sailors are angry at the Mariner
for killing the bird that caused the wind. The fog disappears, and the
sailors change their minds and decide the bird brought the fog, not
the wind. They are happy with the Mariner now. The breeze leads
the ship into a calm ocean, and the ship stops. The sun makes them
hot and thirsty. They are out of water. The ocean is undrinkable and
seems to be filled with dirty beasts. The Mariner talks about death
fires at night. The water turns different colors. Some of the crew
dreams a spirit follows them from the icy area. The crew becomes
thirsty and unable to talk. The crew is giving him bad looks. And
instead of a cross on his neck he wore a bird.
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Diction
• Coleridge uses formal, concrete, and vivid
language in this poem.
• “And I had done an hellish thing”- it
means he did a horrible thing, for killing
the albatross.
Tone and mood
• He’s is regretful
• He’s in a serious mood because he is
regretting his actions.
Rhetorical Situation
• The author is the speaker and he is
thinking to himself.
• And he is communicating that you should
not do something you might regret.
Figurative Language
• Irony – “Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.” (lines 119-122)
Water is everywhere, but there is none to drink
• Simile- “The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white.” (lines 129-130)
Comparison of water to witch's oils
Imagery
• “All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody
Sun, at noon,” – this is describing how hot
the sun is at noon.
• “The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew”
– he is describing the foam from the
waves being blown by the wind.
Sound
• Alliteration- “The furrow followed free”
(line 104)
• Repetition- “Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink”
Structure:
• This poem is a ballad
• Coleridge makes most of the stanzas in
the poem have four lines; but some have
five or six lines. In the four-line stanzas,
the second and fourth lines usually rhyme.
In the five- and six-line stanzas, the
second or third line usually rhymes with
the final line.
Conclusion
The author did well at getting his point
across to his readers by setting the mood.
His strongest element was imagery
because he was very descriptive of the
scenery. It made the readers feel like they
were in his head.
Personal reaction
• We did not like this poem because it was
difficult to understand. We can not relate
because we have never been on a ship
nor have killed birds before.