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HOMEWORK
Refine your understanding of the nature of
allegory
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The wedding guests resistance overcome, the
mariner immediately begins his narrative
Note:
The realism of stanza 6
The joy which accompanied the ships departure ( a parallelto the cheers from the wedding feast)
The lightness of the rhythm by which the atmosphere ofthe farewell is defined
The accuracy with which the images convey the shipsgradual loss of sight of the land
The suggestion of the repetition of below of the shipsdescent into a darker plane of existence, an otherworldliness, even below the church ( the kirk) and all thatit symbolises, and away from the light of the lighthouse.
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VOICE
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How many voices are there?
What types of voices do we have?
Are the voices attributed or free?
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There are three voices; thenarrator, the Mariner and the
wedding guest. All voices arespoken rather than thought.The Wedding guests speech isfree ( so in fact more than oneguest could be speaking). TheMariners is attributed.Coleridge establishes right at
the start that this is a narrativepoem with a mix of narrativeand speech. It is also dramaticand rather strange.
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Tense
He holds him with his glitteringeye -The Wedding-Guest stood still,And listens like a three years'
child:The Mariner hath his will.
In The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, what effectis created by the Coleridge's
variation of tense?
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The Wandering Jew
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YOU DID WHAT?!
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WHY? WHY? WHY?
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An act of malignant
malice
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The ancient
Marinerinhospitably
killeth the pious
bird of good
omen.
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Liminality
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" typifies theRomantic fascination with liminal spaces. Aliminal space is defined as a place on the edge
of a realm or between two realms, whether aforest and a field, or reason and imagination.A liminal space often signifies a liminal state ofmind, such as the threshold of the
imagination's wonders. Romantics such asColeridge, Wordsworth, and Keats valorise theliminal space and state as places where onecan experience the sublime.
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I h A i M i ' li i l
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In the Ancient Mariner's story, liminalspaces are bewildering and causepain. The first liminal space thesailors encounter is the equator,
which is in a sense about as liminala location as exists; after all, it isthe threshold between the Earth'shemispheres. No sooner has the
ship crossed the equator than aterrible storm ensues and drives itinto the poem's ultimate symbolicliminal space, the icy world of the"rime." It is liminal by its veryphysical makeup; there, waterexists not in one a single, definitivestate, but in all three forms: liquid(water), solid (ice), and gas (mist).
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They are still most definitely in the ocean,but surrounding them are mountainousicebergs reminiscent of the land. The
"rime" fits the archetype of theRomantic liminal space in that it issimultaneously terrifying and beautiful,and in that the sailors do not navigate
there purposely, but are rathertransported there by some other force.Whereas the open ocean is a wildterritory representing the mysteries of
the mind and the sublime, the "rime"exists just on its edge. As a liminal spaceit holds great power, and indeed apowerful spirit inhabits the "rime."