2-The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Flashcards
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‘he holds him with his glittering eye’ (1)
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-1st encounter w/ M, WG repeat emph the ‘hold’ of M’s ‘glit eye’ on attention. Symbol of eye, along w/ personification, _ M’s age, timeless nat + perpetuity, reinforce by phys depic incl ‘long beard.’
-Align w/ cc of sin + redemp, as ‘eye’ serve as gateway 2 wisdom gain thru exp & adversity cause by sin of murder, seek penance
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‘crack’d and growl’d, and roar’d and howl’d’ (1)
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-M begin didactic recollect. w/ onomatopoeic desc of how ice engulf surround, as it ‘c +g, and r+h.’ Distinct meter, narr delib emph stressed syllables of onomat. Enhance synaesthetic image of sounds + appearance of phenomena
- Highlight endless conflict b/w humanity + nat, as nat usurp control & strip men agency in direction
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‘With my crossbow/ I shot the Albatross.’ (1)
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-His symbol murder, commit ‘w/ his cross’ to ‘shoot,’ rep act of sin. Ongoing metaphor created thru heretical act highlight mental turmoil cause by murder.
-Act, driven by bored + desire for control, _ pernicious effect of hum on nat, foreshadow future repercussion of M suffer
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‘Instead of the cross, the Albatross/ about my neck was hung.’ (2)
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- Endure series of misfort follow death, crew condemn M as ‘’ is ‘hung’ around neck
- Rhyming couplet allude 2 sacrificial death of Christ, reinforce relig undertone of crime/ sacrilegious act sev conseq, as curse 2 wonder earth in penance
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‘the ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around.’ (1)
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- Anaphora underscore relentless encroachment of ice, nat’s intrusion onto sailors// growing sense of helplessness further intensified by Nat usurpation of autonomy + power
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‘At length did cross an albatross […] as if Christian soul’ (1)
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- Foreshadowing imminent sacrifice of Albatross, ‘’
- Allusions 2 messiah, reflects orthodox Christ. Faith/ align bird w/ JC symbolic of optimistic omen + symbol of hope
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‘whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, glimmer’d the white moonshine’
(1)
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- Moon = continuous semantic thread link moon to supernat + mystic powers, reinforce spiritual awakening of M t/f self expression, moon’s qual lead to appreciation for emotional autonomy
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‘The sun now rose upon the right’
(2)
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- Pathetic fallacy, contrast w/ moon shining when kill albatross signal change in atmosphere and tone. Sun also symbolise divine judgement/scrutiny, rep infallible
-Evidence by simile ‘like God’s own head, The glorious sun uprist.’
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‘fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, the furrow follow’d free.’
(2)
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- Fricative alliteration = mystical affect, flow = mimic voyager on ocean -> spiritual awakening
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‘water, water everywhere […] nor any drop to drink’
(2)
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- Repeating… bitter irony as water abundant but X drinkable. Crew = taunted w/ life and death, as water is non-potable
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‘the death-fires danced at night’
(2)
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- Metaphor, personification + dental alliteration evoke hellish imagery
- Night = symbolic of supernatural, nighttime = liminal space of nature + supernat
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‘the water, like a witch’s oil/ Burnt green, and blue and white.’
(2)
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- Juxtaposition b/w water + oil, immiscible relo t/f signifies growing hostility of waters
- ‘burn’ = decrease hospitality, ocean becoming increasingly unwelcome
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‘A weary time! A weary time! How glazed each weary eye!’
(3)
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- Repetition of ‘weary’ cons of fatigue/ represent crew & M helpless deteriorating under harsh control of nature
- weary eye’ direct juxtaposition to ‘glittering eye’
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‘I bit my arm, I suck’d the blood.’ (3)
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-As physical state decays, Mariner attempt 2 quench thirst by ‘’
- Clear allusions 2 vampires highlight M’s grotesque act, signal transform into state of curse immort, foreshadow future trapped in perpetuity
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‘With throats unslaked, with black lips baked’ (3)
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- Grotesque imagery, decrepit state, evoke decay + death// lifeless existence represent broad metaphor for self sacrifice as death enable M 2 reach moment of spiritual awakening + access pray
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‘The western wave was all aflame, the day was wellnigh done!’ (3)
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- Alliteration emph intense feeling of entrapment/ hellfire cons strength imagery approaching hells gate, evoke idea of trap in biblical limbo, await eternal punish
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‘As if through dungeon-grate […] with broad and burning face’ (3)
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- Hell image, M desc how silhouette of boat resemble ‘dungeon grate,’ symbol sinister confine
⁃ gaze, portray having ‘broad + burning’, reflect physi exhaustion/ plosive amplify sev of M’s sit, while sem seq of bib foreshadow M punish of perpet
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‘I fear thee and thy glittering eye!’ (4)
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- Repeated mention = sem thread of glitt eye, wisdom + penetrated into soul WG
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‘Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone […] my soul is in agony.’ (4)
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- Repetition foreshadows penance/ grievous consequences now endure
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‘I looked upon the rotting sea/ And drew my eyes away/ I looked upon the rotting deck/ And there the dead man lay’ (4)
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- Death + visceral imagery, indic of punishment of perpetuity as everyone around him dies eventually while he is cursed
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‘wicked whisper came, and made/ My heart as dry as dust.’ (4)
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- Personification + alliteration, signify inability to pray (X gain forgive)/ Simile insinuate lack of ability to regain piety and protection from God
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‘For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky’ (4)
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- Chiasmus = creates rhythm which highlight oppress as seemingly endless + indistinguishable
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‘seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse/ And yet I could not die.’ (4)
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- Anaphora = allusions to sinful imagery (7 deadly sins), begin of cruel perpetuity
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‘where ship’s shadow kay […] A still and awful red […] beyond shadow of ship […] moved in tracks of shining light’ (4)
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- Volta signify turning point in tale, move from visceral imagery + allusion 2 earlier deaths thru cons of red to angelic imagery symbol beaut of nat
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‘the Albatross fell off, and sank/ Like lead into the sea.’ (4)
- Newfound appreciation for nat -> spell break + symbolic of end of penance/ ‘lead’ = poisonous so t/f toxicity of M gone
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Self-expression + individualism is endorsed (sin + penance):
- Mariner’s penance is X collective exp, rather uniquely his own, extreme case of indiv SE thru suffering
- M kill of alb = personal transgression that lead to deep self aware. Act = unbridled ambition, h/e punishment force to recog connect 2 nat + supernat, show personal transform to self-disc (SE)
- M’s compulsion 2 story tell = expressive penance, align w/ idea that deep emotion must be expressed, X only repent but also individualistic assertion
- Self-expression emerge from extreme states of being
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Self expression + indiv is endorsed (nat + super nat)
- M’s transgressions -> nat turns on him -> suffering plunges him into state of self-reflect
- Supernat elements like dead crew manifestations of guilt, Romantics viewed supernat as transformative + personal
- Reconnection w/ = shift in emotions, blessing = self expression
- Penance of wander Earth = act of indiv, figure of wisdom shaped by unique exp w/ nature + supernat
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Nature/ sublimity is endorsed
- M’s punishment = support idea that nature in its sublime power can both punish & enlighten -> self reflection
- Spontaneous and emotion transform -> spiritual awakening = true redemption come from emotional connect w/ nat
- Ultimate penance, wander Earth + tell tale, reflect Romantic idea that encounter w/ sublime lead 2 deep moral + artistic expression
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‘gentle sleep from Heaven’ (5)
- Symbolic death + rebirth
- Blessed, regained divine favour -> miracles of ‘rain’
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‘drunken in my dreams’ (5)
- Dental alliteration = dream symbolic of escape/ transient state
- Drunken = cons of intoxication
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‘died in sleep, […] blessed ghost’ (5)
- Idea of death = blissful, fate of perpetuity = undesirable
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‘My lips were wet, my throat was cold’ (5)
- Tactile imagery, contrast w/ dry throat earlier -> reinforce miracle
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‘twas not those souls that fled in pain […] But a troop of spirits blest.’ (5)
- Angelic spirits animate the dead crew, echo movement of birds
- Bird symbolism alludes 2 albatross, accept nature + get penance
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‘the Spirit slid: and it was he/ That made the ship to go […] And the ship stood still also.’ (5)
- Sibilance = indicative of still + eerie silence of movement/ inverts expectations, South Pole spirit comes
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‘With a short uneasy motion/ Backwards and forwards half her length/ With short and uneasy motion.’ (5)
- Repetition of ‘uneasy’ = Polar spirit, who love bird who love man, deliberating over continued penance. Help ship b/c of angelic/ divine orders, h/e still seek vengeance
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‘my living life return’d/ […] in my soul discern’d/ Two voices in the air.’ (5)
- Disassociation = symbolic of second penance/ Sublimity in tranquillity yet uncertainty in nature, underscore supernat as spirits usurp M of agency and take commandeer ship
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‘with his cruel bow he laid full low/ The harmless Albatross’ (5)
- Internal rhyme = creates momentum, reminder of sins, foreshadow continuation of penance.
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‘His great bright eye most silently/ Up to the moon is cast.’ (6)
- Continuation of eye imagery = power of supernatural nature, strengthened by symbolism of ‘moon’
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‘When the Mariner’s trance is abated’ (6)
- Renewed penance, rep of ‘slow and slow that ship will go’ = internal rhyme representing the reversal of the mercy shown w/ divine miracles of boat move fast
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‘fly, brother fly! More high, more high!’ (6)
- 2nd voice tell 1st voice/ cons of ‘fly’ = liberation + transcendence -> spiritual awakening/ ‘high’ = unnatural ascent, higher plane of divine control?
- Vastness of world (sky + sea) = Sublime, exceed hum understand/ voices ascend but M remain earthbound (juxt b/w free move + entrap), liminal state b/w sin + redempt
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‘The dead men stood together/ All stood together on the deck.’ (6)
- Metaphoric renewal of penance, guilt = manifesting self as illusory visions of dead crewmates, indic of sin
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‘Stony eyes/ That in the Moon did glitter.’ (6)
- Allusions to M gaining experience + knowledge in nature
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‘I could not draw my eyes from theirs/ Nor turn them up to pray’ (6)
- Allusion 2 w/ Albatross around neck -> inability to pray reinstalled
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‘We drifted o’er the harbour-bar’ (6)
- Volta, key TP metaphoric of line, division b/w known + unknown
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‘bay was white with silent light/ […] In crimson colours came’ (6)
- Angelic imagery contrast w/ allusions 2 murder w/ cons of ‘crimson,’ foreshadow hallucination of dead sailors’
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‘It is the Hermit good!/ [] singeth loud his godly hymns/ […] He’ll shrieve my soul and he’ll wash away/ The Albatross’s blood.’ (6)
- Hermit = lives in solitude + religious discipline (seclusion) = w/ divine favour rinse M of corrosive guilt
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‘It hath a fiendish look/ I am a fear’d’ (7)
- Repeated theme of fear (semantic thread) of unknown – narrator encourage reader 2 embrace (sublimity)
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‘The ship went down like lead’ (7)
- Allusion 2 Alb sinking like lead = symbolic of M’s detriment sins
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‘seven days drown’d’ (7)
- Evokes 7 deadlly sins, foreshadows interminable penance
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‘But swift as dreams, myself I found within the Pilot’s boat.’ (7)
- Motif of dreams = uncontrollable state of unconsciousness powered by imagination and t/f endless possibility/ naturally occurring transcendental state
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‘He prayeth well, who loveth well/ Both man, and bird and beast.’ (7)
- Symbolic of overall moral of story of gratitude and reverence to nature
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‘The Mariner, whose eye is bright/ Whose beard with age is hoar.’ (7)
- Stark paradox, M = enigmatic as had to change to fulfil penance h/e penance = endless + never-ending
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‘A sadder and a wiser man/ He rose the morrow morn.’ (7)
- M’s didactic lessons = weak b/c M stuck in perpetuity w/ burden of retell story b/c of his inability 2 fully express what he wants to say
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Significance of part 3: M = sufferings + imprisoned by death -> CONSEQUENCES OF ACTIONS (sin and penance – nature)
‘We could nor laugh nor wail/ Through utter drought all dumb we stood!’
- Continuation of punishment following death of alb -> inability to speak b/c of immense dehydration/ cursed to utter desperation + thirst due to M’s hubristic sin link 2 nat’s torment when later in text, water = abundant but non-potable
‘Almost upon the western wave, Rested the broad bright Sun.’
- Sun = reoccurring motif, symbolic of divine scrutiny. Infallible rep of nat thru personification = delineates the transgressions of M action + explain now enduring conseq
‘As if through dungeon-grate […] with broad and burning face.’
- After see ship of death + LID, Metaphoric illustration of prison confinement, mirrors the M’s long-term consequences of his sin on ship, a symbol of Enlightenment exploration.’
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Significance of part 5: Penance will be continued (nature)
‘The sails at noon left off their tune/ And the ship stood still also.’
- Prior 2 sudden halt, Ship was miraculously moving (supernat. Guided by the angelic spirits)/ Temporary pause = symbolic of momentary taste of forgiveness, b4 renewal of penance w/ confrontation w Hermit + tell tale
- Mirrors stagnation of boat earlier
‘Then like a pawing horse let go/ She made a sudden bound.’
- Simile = cons of untamedness -> uncertainty of nat which control M’s fate (R concept’ + continue movement = move 2 next phase of punish (X over)
- Foreshadow eternal curse w/ onus 2 tell story
‘With his cruel bow, he laid full low/ The harmless Albatross’
- Internal rhyme = creates momentum, reminder of sins, instrumental in foreshadowing the continuation of penance
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Part 6 significance: Insight gained through supernatural empowering imagination (continue penance)
‘What makes that ship drive on so fast? What is the ocean doing?’
- Personification of ocean = has intention -> supernatural commission of his penance symbolic of imagination required 2 explore the mystiques of the unknown.
- Ship moving fast = mirrors unnatural movement of ship, even in absence of wind, from earlier
‘See, brother, See! How graciously/ She looketh down on him.’
- Personification of Moon -> continue semantic thread of Moon being liminal space b/w nat + supernat -> guiding force steering towards fate of interminable penance.
- Conversely, early in lyrical ballad, M desc how night = seemed hostile, now Moon = peacefully take 2 fate
‘Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high/ The dead men stood together.’
- Motif of moon continued, + tenebrous imagery indicate supernatural shift in tone and atmosphere. Eerie illusion of dead crew = stark reminder of sin
- When died, they dropped one by one, but now stand tg
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Passage 7 signifiance: demonstrates wisdom + insight gained by M but still stuck w/ burden
‘For the dear God who loveth us/ He made and loveth all.’
- Wisdom gained thru suffering -> religious cons = mirrors when blessed water snakes + regain ability 2 pray
‘A sadder and wiser man/ He rose the morrow morn.’
- Reinforce Romantic idea that supernatural = transformative/ WG’s emotional growth parallels M’s story of suffering, newfound wisdom -> permanently alters way of thought
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Q1 what:
Occurring after the ____, this passage is significant due to its emphasis on the wisdom gained/ penance required/ caustic consequences experienced/ continuation of the ruthless punishment/ insight gained through the supernatural empowering imagination, culminating at the commission of his hubristic act of killing the Albatross.
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Q1 why:
Ultimately, through the Mariners ____, which consequently allows him to partial achieve atonement/ forgiveness, affirms this passage as a highly significant piece of the text.
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Q2 what:
Taking place after ____ in the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge endorses the Romantic concept of ___, APPOSITIVE?, as a force/ attribute/ concept which catalyses the Mariner’s transformation through adversity.
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Q2 why:
Therefore, by demonstrating the Mariner’s ___ through Coleridge’s meticulous fabrication of the Mariner’s dire situation, ___ is ultimately valorised as ___.
