The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge • (1772-1834), English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher whose Lyrical Ballads, (1798) written with William Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement.

3. The Romantic movement included an emphasis on the individual and the common man rather than an emphasis on royalty or society. It also portrays nature in a different way than before, not as calm, serene and orderly, but personified as a source of ill as well as good. G Morland: The Wreckers, 1775 What’s Romanticism and howis Coleridge involved?

4. A Ballad is a long narrative poem that usually focuses on one event, contains supernatural elements, is about a common man, and usually contains repetition. Ballad Form

5. The ancient mariner (a really old sea person) stops a wedding guest to tell him a story. The mariners eyes are so spellbinding, that the wedding guest stops to listen. Rime Summary

6. The mariner begins to tell his tale of a sea voyage in which he…well, we’ll go over that soon enough; for now, let’s look at the pretty slide to the right. Rime Summary

7. “A painted ship upon a painted sea.”

8. “And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work ‘em woe.”

9. “He prayeth well, who loveth well.”