Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1. Audience, Purpose, and Tone Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2. Theme… How do you know when someone is acting guilty? Give specific examples from your own experiences What does guilt do to you? ISOLATION DIVISION

3. “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Infer… Setting? Main Character? Structure? Theme?

4. Audience • Who is intended to read this ballad? • Romantics of the time: Science vs. Spirituality; Industry vs. nature • Christian allusions • Anyone who feels plagued by guilt

5. Techniques Sound devices Imagery Other Lyric Poetry Figurative Language Strategies

6. Sound Devices Repetition: repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or sentences. Poets use repetition for emphasis as well as to create a musical effect. There are three popular devices that rely on repetition: Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds Consonance: repetition of final consonant sounds Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds Rhyme: repetition of sounds at the ends of words. End rhyme is the most common type of rhyme, which occurs when rhyming words appear at the ends of lines. Onomatopoeia: use of words that imitate sounds—for example, words like ring, boom, and growl. “The fair breeze blew, the white foal flew…” “a frightful fiend / Doth close behind…” “The western wave was all aflame.” “With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,…” Now let’s practice…pg 6 packet

7. Making meaning Identifying how words are powerful Analyzing then interpreting images Page 7 of packet

8. What is the author’s purpose?Explain your response • To inform? • To teach? • To persuade? • To entertain?

9. Rime of the Ancient Mariner Audience, Purpose, and Tone

10. A Christian Parable About Respect? “Instead of the cross, the Albatross/ About my neck was hung” “I had killed the bird / That made the breeze to blow” “Hailed it in God’s name” “Christian soul” “Crimson red like Gods own head” “blessed them unawares” Bear that… Cross? Albatross? Saul/Paul…

11. Many critics see the ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ as an allegory of some kind of fall, like…… STRUCTURE: Sin, Punishment, Redemption… Of Lucifer - Of Adam & Eve- Of Coleridge - …cast into hell? …forbidden fruit? …opium? “…slimy things … Slimy sea” “I shot the albatross” “witch’s oils, / … burnt green, and blue and white” “…and I had done a hellish thing…” “…the very deep did rot…”

12. Coleridge felt a deep sense of sin for his opium addiction. He was “still haunted by his failure to break free from opium.” - Holmes The poem could be his way of fathoming his feelings. The “strange power” of the Ancient Mariner, as his difficult feelings. “mingled strangely with my fears” “I know that man … must hear me” / “To him my tale I teach”

13. Coleridge • Just as the Ancient Mariner has to re-tell his tale, Coleridge has to keep on returning to this poem and revising it…

14. Sin Mariner Coleridge Punishment Redemption • How can we represent the theme visually?

15. He went like one that hath been stunned And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

16. delightful • earnest • ebullient • ecstatic • effusive • elated • empathetic • encouraging • euphoric • excited • exhilarated • expectant • facetious • fervent • flippant • forthright • friendly • funny • gleeful • gushy • happy  • Reflective • Relaxed • Hilarious • Hopeful • Humorous • Interested • Zealous • worshipful Tone • reticent • sarcastic • sardonic • scornful • self-deprecating • selfish • serious • severe • sinister • skeptical • sly • solemn • somber • stern • stolid • stressful • strident • suspicious • tense • threatening • tragic • uncertain • uneasy • unfriendly • unsympathetic • upset • Violent • abhorring • acerbic • ambiguous • ambivalent • angry • annoyed • antagonistic • anxious • apathetic • apprehensive • belligerent • bewildered • biting • derogatory • desolate • despairing • desperate • detached • diabolic • disappointed • disliking • disrespectful • doubtful • embarrassed • enraged • evasive • fatalistic • fearful • forceful • foreboding • frantic • frightened • frustrated • furious • gloomy • grave • greedy • grim • harsh • Haughty • contemptuous • curt • cynical • demanding • depressed • Derisive • condescending • confused • cold • conceited • hostile • impatient • incredulous • indifferent • indignant • inflammatory • insecure • insolent • irreverent • lethargic • melancholy • mischievous • miserable • mocking • mournful • nervous • ominous • outraged • paranoid • pathetic • patronizing • pedantic • pensive • pessimistic • pretentious • psychotic • Resigned • bitter • blunt • bossy • admiring • adoring • affectionate • appreciative • approving • bemused • benevolent • blithe • calm • casual • celebratory • cheerful • comforting • comic • compassionate • complimentary • conciliatory • confident • Contented • respectful • reverent • romantic • Sanguine • Introspective • Jovial • joyful • laudatory • light • lively • mirthful • modest • nostalgic • optimistic • passionate • placid • playful • poignant • proud • reassuring • scholarly • self-assured sentimental • serene • silly • sprightly • straightforward • sympathetic • tender • tranquil • whimsical • wistful Positive Negative

17. Tone/diction = Audience/purpose

18. Purpose? • To Inform? • To Persuade? • How can we represent the purpose visually? • To Entertain? • To Teach?