The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Minsrelsy
    • performing
    • Definitions:
    • Efstoons
      • soon afterwards (archaic language)
      • ken
        • knowledge
        • kirk
          • church (Sottish)
          • helmsman
            • person who steers the boat
            • vespers
              • evening or evening prayer
  • Efstoons
    • soon afterwards (archaic language)
    • ken
      • knowledge
      • kirk
        • church (Sottish)
        • helmsman
          • person who steers the boat
          • vespers
            • evening or evening prayer
  • Themes:
    • The Natural and the Spiritual
    • The Mundane and the Sublime
    • Sin and Penance
    • Storytelling and Interpretation
    • Christian Allegory
  • Albatross = symbol of hope
  • "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye"
  • "He cannot choose but hear"
  • "With my cross-bow // I shot the ALBATROSS"
  • "A spring of love gushed from my heart […] The self same moment I could pray"
  • "The thick black cloud was cleft"
  • "Like one that hath been seven days drowned"
  • Structure changes to create tension; changing to a faster pace, to flow easier.
  • Language becomes more destructive when the structure changed to become more negative.
  • Coleridge's own self-criticism, that there is altogether too much of a pious moral.
  • The scenary remains thrillingly hellish, while laced with photographically realistic meteorological effects.
  • The snakes may be associated with the imagery of an opium-induced nightmare.

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