The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• The Natural World: The Physical
• The Spiritual World: The Metaphysical
• Liminality: "a place on the edge of a realm or between two realms, whether a forest and a field, or reason and imagination. A liminal space often signifies a liminal state of mind, such as the threshold of the imagination's wonders."
• Religion: Christianity and Paganism
• Imprisonment
• Retribution: "a justly deserved penalty"
• The act of storytelling
• Redemption: "the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil"
• Sin/guilt
• Supernatural
• Gothic

"The Sun came up upon the left

Out of the sea came he!"

"And now the STORM-BLAST came, and

he

Was tyrannous and strong"

"Now there came both mist and

snow

And it grew wondrous cold

And ice, mast-high, came floating by

As green as emerald"

"The ice was here, the ice was there

The ice was all around

It cracked and growled, and roared and

howled

Like noises in a swound!" * *

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"The ice did split with a thunder-fit"

"The sun now rose upon the right

Out of the sea came he"

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"silent sea" * *

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"All in a hot and copper sky

The bloody Sun, at noon"

"Water, Water, everywhere

And all the boards did shrink

Water, Water, everywhere

Nor any drop to drink"

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"Slimy things did crawl with legs

Upon the slimy sea"

"The death-fires danced at night

The Water, like a witch's oils

Burnt green, and blue and white"

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"The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out

At one stride comes the dark"

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"The horned Moon, with one bright star" * * *

"rotting sea [...] rotting deck"

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"I watched the water-snakes

They moved in tracks of shining white"

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"I watched their [the water snakes] rich attire

Blue, glossy green and velvet black

They coiled and swam; and every track

Was a flash of golden fire"

"O happy living things! [...]

A spring of love gushed from my heart

And i blessed them unaware"

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"And soon I heard a roaring wind:

It did not come anear"

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"I heard the sky-lark sing

[...] With their sweet jargoning"

"And now twas like all instruments

Now like a lonely flute"

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"A noise like of a hidden brook

In the leafy month of June"

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"This Hermit good lives in that wood

Which slopes down to the sea"

"It is the moss that wholly hides

That rotted old oak-stump"

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"He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small

For the dear God who loveth us

He made and loveth all" * *

"At length did cross an Albatross

through the fog it came

As if it had been a Christian Soul

We hailed it in God's name" * *

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"With my cross-bow

I shot the ALBATROSS" * *

"Death-fires danced at night

the water, like a witch's oils

Burnt green, and blue and white"

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"And some in dreams assured were

Of the Spirit that plagued us so"

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"Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths

And from their bodies passed"

"I heard and in my soul discerned

Two voices in the air"

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"A man all light, a seraph-man

On every corse there stood"

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"This seraph-band, each waved his hand

It was a heavenly sight"

"And every soul, it passed me by

Like the whizz of my cross bow!"

"I looked to heaven and tried to pray"

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"Seven days, seven nights, I saw that

curse

And yet I could not die" * *

"The spirit slid: And it was he

That made the ship to go"

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"Is this the man?

By him who died on cross"

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"He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away

The Albatross's blood" * *

"The holy Hermit raised hs eyes

And prayed where he did sit"

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"And straight the Sun was flecked with

bars [...]

As if through a dungeon-grate he peered

With broad and burning face" * * *

"Her lips were red, her looks were free

Her locks were yellow as gold

Her skin was white as leprosy

The nightmare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she

Who thicks man's blood with cold" * *

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"The Devil knows how to row"

"He holds him with his skinny hand

'There was a ship,' quoth he" * *

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"Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt / down"

"Day after day, day after day

We stuck, nor breath nor motion

As idle as a painted ship

Upon a painted ocean"

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"Alone, alone, all, all alone

Alone on a wide wide sea"

"Like one, that on a lonesome road

Doth walk in fear and dread"

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"I pass, like night, from land to land

I have strange power of speech

That moment that his face I see

I know the man that must hear me

To him my tale I teach" * * *

"The man hath penane done

And penance more will do"

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"O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!"

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"And listens like a three years' child

The Mariner hath his will"

"I fear thee, Ancient Mariner!

I fear thy skinny hand!"

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"Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding Guest

This body dropt not down"

"He went like one that hath been stunned

And is of sense forlorn

A sadder and a wiser man

He rose the morrow morn"

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"Instead of the cross, the Albatross

about my neck was hung"

"Each turned his face with a ghastly pang

and cursed me with his eye"

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"Four times Fifty living men

(and I heard sigh nor groan)

With heavy thump, a lifeless lump

They dropped down one by one"

"The look with which they looked on me

Had never passed away"

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"The Albatross fell off, and sank

Like lead into the sea"

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"All fixed on me their stony eyes"

"With throats unslaked, with black lips baked"

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"And those her ribs through which the sun

Did peer as through a grate?

And is that woman all her crew?

Is that a DEATH? and are there two?

Is DEATH that woman's mate?"

"The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed

white"

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"For a charnel-dungeon fitter"