Samuel Taylor Coleridge Flashcards
a large white sea bird
albatross
great thanks
gramercy
faint
swoon
declared to be true
averred
unquenched; unsatisfied
unslaked
a church
kirk
a cross
rood
shining; glinting; sparkling
glittering
dire; depressing
dismal
floating cobwebs
gossamers
the Mariner “holds him with his glittering eye”; represents every man
Wedding Guest
“The water, like a witch’s oils,
Burned gree, and blue, and white.”
Gothic elements
“And I am next of kin;
The guests are met …”
assonance
“Twas right, said they, such birds to slay,
That brings the fog and mist.”
sailors’ second view of the albatross
The Mariners’ action that transmits all the guilt upon the Mariner. It is also symbolic.
hang the dead albatross around his neck
steers them through the ice; comes to the mariner’s hollo; remains with them for nine evenings
the albatross
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion; …”
“As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
“At length did cross an Albatross”
internal rhyme
“A wicked whisper came and made
My heart as dry as dust.”
the Mariner on the ship after the death of his shipmates
sailors’ first view of the albatross
They believe it has a “Christian soul” and they “hail it in God’s name.” They believe it is a good omen.
dices for the Mariner
Life-in-Death
“… who bideth by himself
In the land of mist and snow,
He loved the bird that loved the man
Who shot him with his bow.”
The Polar Spirit
“And straight the Sun was flecked with bars …
As if through a dungeon-grate he peered
With broad and burning face.”
the skeleton ship
Central One Idea (quote)
“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
"O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushed from my heart, And I blessed them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me, And I blessed them unaware."
The Mariner’s epiphany
