Mr.Pajic
University of sarajevo
Faculty of philosophy
English department
Poezija engleskog predromantizma
Essay topic :
● The Ancient Mariner, anti hero or a romantic hero
Student: Mentor :
● Introduction
Written in 1797 and first published in 1798, „The rime of the Ancient Mariner“ has been interpreted as both a tale of the supernatural, in the Gothic tradition of superstition, magic spells, gloomy atmosphere, and treacherous journey, a religious allegory, or a morality story embedded within a tale of the Mariner 's fate after killing a bird. But the circumstances behind the creation of this tale were actually quite mundane. Coleridge along with Wordsworth decided to write a Gothic ballad, a type of poetry Coleridge remembered from his childhood, and they planned to publish it in the Monthly Magazine. As a result „The rime of the Ancient Mariner“was created. When it was finished it was more complex than the Gothic tradition which influenced it. It became in a way a modern revision of the medieval allegory with which it bears a striking resemblance. Some critics say that the poem itself is a retelling of a strange dream by one of Coleridge’s neighbors in Nether Stowey.
The story of the poem is told like a story inside a story. We have a Mariner who detained three wedding guests somewhere on the road to tell them a story. One of the guests is the „chosen one“and the Mariner detained him with some sort of a magic, the guest was „bound by the eye“and had to listen to the Mariner. So the Mariner starts his story, how he was a sailor on a ship, they had some trouble at sea, and for reasons not known to him he killed an albatross which till that time brought the ship and the crew only good weather and good wind. But he shoots him anyway, and then his problems begin. The ship encountered problems at sea, then came the Death and Life in Death to punish him for his
Faculty of philosophy
English department
Poezija engleskog predromantizma
Essay topic :
● The Ancient Mariner, anti hero or a romantic hero
Student: Mentor :
● Introduction
Written in 1797 and first published in 1798, „The rime of the Ancient Mariner“ has been interpreted as both a tale of the supernatural, in the Gothic tradition of superstition, magic spells, gloomy atmosphere, and treacherous journey, a religious allegory, or a morality story embedded within a tale of the Mariner 's fate after killing a bird. But the circumstances behind the creation of this tale were actually quite mundane. Coleridge along with Wordsworth decided to write a Gothic ballad, a type of poetry Coleridge remembered from his childhood, and they planned to publish it in the Monthly Magazine. As a result „The rime of the Ancient Mariner“was created. When it was finished it was more complex than the Gothic tradition which influenced it. It became in a way a modern revision of the medieval allegory with which it bears a striking resemblance. Some critics say that the poem itself is a retelling of a strange dream by one of Coleridge’s neighbors in Nether Stowey.
The story of the poem is told like a story inside a story. We have a Mariner who detained three wedding guests somewhere on the road to tell them a story. One of the guests is the „chosen one“and the Mariner detained him with some sort of a magic, the guest was „bound by the eye“and had to listen to the Mariner. So the Mariner starts his story, how he was a sailor on a ship, they had some trouble at sea, and for reasons not known to him he killed an albatross which till that time brought the ship and the crew only good weather and good wind. But he shoots him anyway, and then his problems begin. The ship encountered problems at sea, then came the Death and Life in Death to punish him for his
Bibliography: H. Bloom, Bloom 's major poets, Infobase publishing, New York, 2000 M.H Abrams, ur., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, W.W Norton & Co Ltd, New York, 2001