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Gone From My Sight. I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side, for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength. of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other. Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone."
- It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
- The Sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left. Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind,
- There passed a weary time. Each throat. Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld.
- 'I fear thee, ancient Mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
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.
- It is an ancient mariner. And he stoppeth one of three. --"By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stoppest thou me? The bridegroom's doors are opened wide,
- The sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left. Went down into the sea. And the good south wind still blew behind,
- There passed a weary time. Each throat. Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! How glazed each weary eye, When looking westward, I beheld.
- "I fear thee, ancient mariner! I fear thy skinny hand! And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
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- Structure and Form
- Part 1 Analysis
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‘ begins with an old sailor stopping a wedding guest to tell his haunting tale. Part I of the poem opens with the Ancient Mariner detaining one of three wedding guests, compelling him to listen to his story. Despite the guest’s protests and desire to join the wedding feast, he finds himself captivated by the Mariner’...
This excerpt from ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‘ consists of 20 quatrains. The poem employs a ballad-like structure, which is typical of narrative poetry. This format allows Coleridge to tell a story while maintaining a rhythmic, song-like quality that echoes traditional oral storytelling techniques. The rhyme scheme varies throughout the poem, ...
The poem is about how the Ancient Mariner’s ship sailed past the Equator and was driven by storms to the cold regions towards the South Pole; from thence she sailed back to the tropical Latitude of the Pacific Ocean; how the Ancient Mariner cruelly and inhospitably killed a sea-bird called Albatross, and how he was followed by many and strange dist...
It's a cracking yarn, full of rambunctious twists and swashbuckling thrills: a ship blown off-course, sea-monsters, wracking thirst, a ghost-crew, dead men's curses, isolation, visions in the sky, rescue by a wild mystic and a man transformed.
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Nov 13, 2023 · ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is one of the most significant and celebrated poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In fact, it’s Coleridge’s greatest poem that caused a sea change in English verse.
