Themes of the Rime of The Ancient Mariner
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- Created on: 14-05-13 11:07
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- Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Themes
- Natural World
- Beautiful yet frighteningly powerful
- Punishes yet enlightens the Mariner
- Typical of Romanticism
- Dwarfs mankind
- When Ancient Mariner offends it - "revolting" "slimy"
- When Mariner accepts it - beauty
- Personified
- Hermit reflects the balance between that and spirtuality
- Beautiful yet frighteningly powerful
- The Spiritual world
- Symbolism of the Albatross
- Punishment for deying it
- Gratitude for accepting it e.g blessed with water & saviour
- The Dead mates rising
- Mankind always attempt to define it but the spiritual world is beyond human knowledge
- Symbolism of the Albatross
- Mankind always attempt to define it but the spiritual world is beyond human knowledge
- First & Second voices, life-in-death always talk about him rather than TO him
- Beyond the physical realm
- Real or a guilty consicence?
- Emapthises the way the spiritual world afflicts mankind
- Wedding Guest & Mariner apart from wedding = mans alienation from organised religion
- Liminality
- Distance between spiritual & physical realm
- changes in characters
- Mariner is forced into the spiritual world to value natural beauty
- changes in characters
- "place on the edge of a realm" - sea
- pain & pleasure
- Life-n-ndeath = limbo?
- wild and mysterious terriotory
- "liquid" (sea), "gas" (mist), "solid" (ice) - definitely in the sea but remnants of land - limbo
- "liquid" (sea), "gas" (mist), "solid" (ice) - definitely in the sea but remnants of land - limbo
- "glittering eye" - after his repentance he is forced to retell his story - genius & pain (eye)
- wild and mysterious terriotory
- The Equator
- icy storm of pain when crossed
- icy storm of pain when crossed
- liminal state of mind - industrial society, organised religion, tradition
- threshold of imagination
- Distance between spiritual & physical realm
- Religion
- Champions the "Hermit" who is a figure of prayer
- Closeness to God ans his creatures
- Alba-tross killing = adam & eve, cain & able
- Fails to obey Gods rules
- Tempted into sin
- "murders the Christian soul"
- Prophet?
- Baptised by the rain - washed away of sins but does not forget
- Champions the "Hermit" who is a figure of prayer
- Imprisonment
- icy prision - trapped in the physical world
- Foreshadows his entrapment in life-in0death
- Lose control of the ship
- Trapped by their thirst - human desires
- silences them - isolates them from civillisation as they cannot communicate
- Mariner is trapped by the ghost ship - guilt?
- Trapped by his soul and conscience to replay the story
- "glitetring eye" = frenzied soul trying to escape
- Imprisons others by telling the story
- Trapped by his soul and conscience to replay the story
- Ships traps the sun
- Spiritual power over the limits of physicality
- icy prision - trapped in the physical world
- Retribution
- thirst and deat
- torment of salty water
- shipmates die and the mariner is alone
- Killed the albatross
- Life In Death
- Eternal state of limbo - forced to never die but to repeat his suffering
- thirst and deat
- Storytelling
- Mariner = coleridge - gifted storytellers but are marred by a need to write but an torment to do so
- Gift is a curse (Mariners punishment yet was saved)
- Storytelling is their drug
- Inspires yet hurts
- Pschyological burden
- Painfull limbo
- Wedding Guest = the reader, forced to suffer through a sharsh tale to see a new way
- A background presence to forces we do not understand
- Gift is a curse (Mariners punishment yet was saved)
- Mariner = coleridge - gifted storytellers but are marred by a need to write but an torment to do so
- Natural World
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