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  2. The poem’s main text concerns an anonymous elderly Mariner who draws a young man away from his companion’s wedding celebration to tell him a story. This story recounts his experience of wrongfully killing an albatross and the harrowing spiritual journey that followed.

  3. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.

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    The poem begins by introducing the Ancient Mariner, who, with his glittering eye, stops a Wedding Guest from attending a nearby wedding celebration. The Mariner stops the young man to tell him the story of a ship, providing no introduction but simply beginning his tale. Despite the Wedding Guests efforts to leave, the Mariner continues to speak. Th...

    In this terrible calm, trapped completely by the watery ocean that they cannot drink, the men on the ship grow so thirsty that they cannot even speak. When the Mariner sees what he believes is a ship approaching, he must bite his arm and drink his own blood so that he is able to alert the crew, who all grin out of joy. But the joy fades as the ghos...

    Surrounded by the dead Sailors and cursed continuously by their gaze, the Mariner tries to turn his eyes to heaven to pray, but fails. It is only in the Moonlight, after enduring the horror of being the only one alive among the dead crew that the Mariner notices beautiful Water Snakes swimming beside the ship. At this moment he becomes inspired, an...

  4. Nov 13, 2023 · Written in flowing ballad meter, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is an enduring enigma of moral philosophy paradoxically marked by a revolutionary plainness of phrasing, starkness of imagery and clarity of narrative.

  5. Mar 7, 2024 · Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a captivating narrative poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. First published in 1798 as part of the Lyrical Ballads, this poem is known for its hauntingly beautiful language, vivid imagery, and exploration of profound themes such as guilt, redemption, and the supernatural. Background Information.

  6. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a narrative poem in which a mariner tells a wedding guest about a harrowing voyage he once endured. The mariner’s ship sailed toward the...

  7. How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country. PART I.

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