The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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- Created on: 21-08-19 13:54
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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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