The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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- Created on: 11-05-14 11:12
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- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Form
- Ballad
- Gives us the idea that a dramatic story is about to play out
- Repetition "The ice was here the Ice was there/ The ice was all around"
- He does this to get the point across and draw attention to it
- It also shows where in the there are changes of dirrection
- Surrounded could say they are trapped
- It also shows where in the there are changes of dirrection
- He does this to get the point across and draw attention to it
- ABCB rhyming scheme
- draws attention to the lyrics without breaking the flow of the poem
- Ballad
- Untitled
- Symbols
- Albatros
- Metaphor for Jesus. Its their salvation but also its saccrifced
- Something is stopping them from getting to the light. Praying for redemption?
- The oncoming ship makes the sun look like a prisoner to them
- God is a prisoner? Or perhaps death is the prison life (sun gives us light)
- The oncoming ship makes the sun look like a prisoner to them
- God is watching over the terrible act that they are about to commit
- Perhaps he sent the albatros just like he sent Jesus
- Showing how beastly humans are
- Something is stopping them from getting to the light. Praying for redemption?
- Metaphor for Jesus. Its their salvation but also its saccrifced
- Sun, stars and the moon
- "Betwixt us and the sun"
- Something is stopping them from getting to the light. Praying for redemption?
- The oncoming ship makes the sun look like a prisoner to them
- God is a prisoner? Or perhaps death is the prison life (sun gives us light)
- The oncoming ship makes the sun look like a prisoner to them
- Something is stopping them from getting to the light. Praying for redemption?
- "the white Moon-shine"
- White suggests something pure, sign that even though its dark God is still watching
- God is watching over the terrible act that they are about to commit
- Perhaps he sent the albatros just like he sent Jesus
- God is watching over the terrible act that they are about to commit
- White suggests something pure, sign that even though its dark God is still watching
- "Betwixt us and the sun"
- Weather
- "The furrow followed free"
- The only bit of good weather during the whole poem
- Alliteration of the "f" makes the stanza even more light hearted, perhaps to either highlight it or to highlight the danger around it
- The only bit of good weather during the whole poem
- "o'ertaking wings... chased us south along"
- metaphor for strong wings
- Bird of prey suggesting perhaps that they will become a victim, foreshadowing
- metaphor for strong wings
- "The bloody sun"
- Nature turning on the due to the fact that they killed an animal that saved them
- "Bloody" foreshadowing deaths of shipman
- Nature turning on the due to the fact that they killed an animal that saved them
- "The furrow followed free"
- Albatros
- Untitled
- Themes
- Pride
- He shoots the bird to create a trophy for getting them out of the bad situation they were in
- He believes he is above nature when actually nature is above him
- As something natural got him out of the bad situation
- He believes he is above nature when actually nature is above him
- He shoots the bird to create a trophy for getting them out of the bad situation they were in
- Supernatural
- "Are those her ribs through which the Sun did peer"
- Ribs being like bars, the light is held captive by death
- "Peer" light has seen them and yet is not going to help them
- Ribs being like bars, the light is held captive by death
- "Are those her ribs through which the Sun did peer"
- Suffering
- Killed the bird and then death came
- "The souls did from their bodies fly"
- This is the end of suffering
- "souls" they still have their souls so they are good?
- not to blame for the albatrosses death, perhaps God is trying to save them from the long and painful death of dehydration
- "souls" they still have their souls so they are good?
- This is the end of suffering
- Transformation
- The crew are only interested in themselves and so misinterpret why shooting the albatros was a bad thing
- The crew is then visited by Death
- The crew are only interested in themselves and so misinterpret why shooting the albatros was a bad thing
- Pride
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- Form
- "The bloody sun"
- "And every tongue, through utter drought, was withered at the root"
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