NAME : PIYUSH JHA STD : X SEC : DROLL NO : 22SUB : ENGLISHTOPIC : THE RIME OF ANCIENT MARINERSCHOOL :SHRI RAMKRISHNA HARIKRISHNA ACADEMY

CONTENT

INTRODUCTION

ABOUT THE POET

SUMMARY OF THE POEM

RHYME SCHEME

FIGURE OF SPEECH

RHYMING WORDS

INTRODUCTIONThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). It was first published in Lyrical Ballads, with a few other poems in 1798. The Lyrical Ballads were written And published jointly by Coleridge and his good friend William Wordsworth (1770-1850) by whom most of the poems were written. The first version of the poem was entitled The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, and much of the spelling was very archaic (old-fashioned) even at that time. In 1800 the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads appeared, with another volume of poems to accompany the first. Coleridge, at Wordsworth's suggestion, had modernized much of the spelling and the title appeared in the form at the head of this page.

ABOUT THE POET Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

(21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a

member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner  and Kubla Khan, as well as the major prose work Biographia Literaria. His critical work, especially on Shakespeare, was highly influential, and he helped introduce German idealist philosophy to English-speaking culture. Coleridge coined many familiar words and phrases, including suspension of disbelief. He was a major influence on Emerson and American transcendentalism.

HIS POETRIES

KUBLA KHAN CHRISTABLE LIMBO

TO LORD STANHOPE

Coleridge’s masterpiece, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, was first published as part of the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which thereby secured its position as one of the landmark poems of its age, despite its archaic ballad form. Structured as a frame narrative, the poem begins with the Mariner’s detaining a guest on his way to a wedding with the spellbinding account of a most strange ocean voyage. The Mariner tells of a southbound voyage to the Antarctic. He describes how the ship, as it clears the horizon, ominously dips below the church and below all of civilized and conventional authority, descending toward the unknown, the wild, and the hellish.

SUMMARY OF THE POEM

Reaching the frozen, seemingly blank, polar world, the sailors call to and feed a white albatross, a large seabird, as an apparent friend or messenger from another realm. The Mariner inexplicably shoots it, sacrificing it, innocent and pure, with his crossbow (echoing Easter imagery). Thereupon, the ship idles without wind to move it while the superstitious crew grows increasingly thirsty and hangs the dead bird around the Mariner’s neck to punish him for his cruelty, which they feel in some way has stalled their trip.

RHYME SCHEMEThe Rhyme Scheme of this poem is ABCB

It is an ancient Mariner , AAnd he stoppeth one of three. B'By thy long grey beard and glittering C eye,Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? B

And now there came both mist and snow, A  And it grew wondrous cold: B And ice, mast-high, came floating by, C As green as Emerald B

FIGURE OF SPEECH

Blew behindBreeze blowFoam flewFurrow followed freeDown droppedSilent seaSlimy seaReel routHe holds him

• And listens like a three years child•Red as a rose is she•As green as emerald•Like noises in a swound•It was sad as sad could be•No bigger than the moon•As idle as a painted ship•The water like a witch’s oils

The ship was cheered Out of the sea came heIce cracked and growledHe was tyrannous and strong

•Below the Kirk ,below the hill• The ice was here ,the ice was there• Day after day ,day after day• Water water everywhere• Down dropped the breeze, the sails dropped down

INTERNAL RHYME The ship was cheered ,the harbour clearedThe guests are met, the feast is set and he shone bright, and on the rightThe ship drove fast, loud roared the blastNor shapes of men nor beasts we kenIn mist or could, on mast or shroudWhiles all the night, through fog –smoke white

RHYMING WORDSThree – me

Kin – dinMet – setStill – willHear – marinerCheered – clearedDrop – topHe – seaBright – right

Noon – bassoonStrong – alongProw – blowHead – fledCold – emeraldHigh – byDrifts – cliftsSheen – betweenAround – swoundGrowled - howled

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