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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Flashcards

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A03 context

How has the poem changed
Where was it published

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Longest of coleridges poems and was originally published in anthology (lyrical ballads 1798) however the 1817 version has been revised and has gloss added in margin as critics said original was difficult to understand

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What type of poem is it

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Ballad

Folk tradition of telling stories in songs

Tells a narrative in simple repetitive form using quatrains and ABAB rhyme scheme

Didactic poem

Prose gloss poem - Christian meaning

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A03 what might the poem have been inspired by

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According to William Wordsworth - inspired while Coleridge Wordsworth and Dorothy were on a walking tour through hills in Somerset

The discussion had turned to s book that Wordsworth was reading, A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, a melancholy sailer Hately shoots a black albatross

Poem may also have been inspired by the legend of the wandering Jew who was forced to wonder the earth until judgement day for taunting Jesus on the day of crucifixion and of the Flying Dutchman - didactic

Ode also contains marital imagery

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Descriptions of the Mariner

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‘The mariner hath his will’ - controller

‘Ancient’ - mystery, enigmatic

‘Skinny hand’ - living corpse in limbo

‘Grey beard loon’

‘Bright eyed’

‘Glittering eye’- hypnosis/ enchants

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Description of the guest

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Stood still

‘Hold off…’ - frustrated and scared

‘Like a 3 years child’

‘He cannot choose but hear’

‘Next of kin’

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What is the ‘invisible worlds’ mariner is talking off

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Souls of dead (ghosts) co exist with our world

Heaven

Nature

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Notes of the description of the natural world

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‘Glorious sun’

‘White foam flew’

‘Bloody sun’

‘Silent sea’

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Supernatural elements

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‘The souls did from their bodies fly’

‘Four times fifty living men…dropped one by one…’

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Religious imagery

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‘Cross’ ‘was hung’

‘Drag to hell’

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A03

Do you agree w the view that the Rime upholds the traditional Christian views of Coleridges contemporary society

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Yes:

Ultarism (selfless) to all gods creatures

Mariner - punishes - you have to pray and love

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How has mariner changed attitude at end of part 4

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Blessed waterstakes
Involuntary
So albatross fell off

‘I could pray’ - freedom - Christ is no longer a burden

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Storm

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‘Roaring wing’ ‘water shot’ ‘thick black cloud’

Powerful god and his wrath

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Crew

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‘Uproar’

‘Not spake, not moves their eyes’

‘Ghosts’

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Angelic spirits

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‘Sings like birds’

‘Spirits blest’

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How has theme of penance been explored

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Drought

Survivors guilt and haunting of it

Being out on sea

Has to roam earth and warn can’t forget

Christian figure - wandering Jew

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What is a hermit

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Person who lived in seclusion from society musically for religious reasons

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What makes the mariner tell tale to specific people

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‘The moment that his face I see…To him my tale I teach’

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What makes mariner happy

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To walk together to the Kirk

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Mariners final warning

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Who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast

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Why did he pick guest

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Young

Immature and reckless

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A05 Interpretation

Critics

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Mrs Barbauld

No moral

Improbable

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Coleridge sin

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Some people say that that the poem is a dramatisation of coleridges sinc
And the nightmare of being damned for some wholly involuntary action

For many readers, the slaying of a sea bird is not a sufficient crime in itself to justify the punishment

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Verse

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Ballad traditional

4 line stanza

Archaic words ‘eftsoons’ - historical authentic

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Theme

Emphasis on freedom of individual

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‘He cannot choose but hear’

‘Bright-eyed’

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Theme

Sexual freedom

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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold/ Her skin was white as leprosy

—> less sexual freedom but shows the ability of women to seduce

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Theme horror awe treipidation

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Why look’st thou so?

With my cross-bow I shot the albatross

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Religious

Theme

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‘Aaa id it had been a Christian soul/ we hailed it in God’s name’

The wandering Jew

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Importance of nature

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‘I blessed them unaware’

‘The albatross fell off’

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