The Rime of Life (3 Messages from “Rime”) Immortality is a story like any other. Meaning everybody dies eventually. Though‚ before death‚ there is life. To live life‚ people need to learn. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ Samuel Taylor Coleridge teaches some important lessons that many people have learned‚ will learn‚ or need to learn. One of the lessons Coleridge has placed in his poetic story is that people have more regrets the older they get. With every mistake made‚ either the person
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the effect of the poem. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” contains many elements‚ each of which enhances the way the poem conveys meaning. The extensive use of alliteration‚ varying metrical patterns‚ internal and external rhyme‚ anaphora‚ caesura‚ enjambment‚ and inversion add to the complexity of the structure and the overall meaning of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚” which could be interpreted as love for all living things. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is set up in the form of a ballad
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“’Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a poem that is just too full of the gothic and the unearthly and too removed from reality”. How far do you agree with this statement? The ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a poem from the Romantics period in literature and is written by Coleridge who collaborated with Wordsworth on the ‘Lyrical Ballads’. It is about a Mariner who stops one of three wedding guests and tells him a story of when he set sail and all that happens. The poem meddles and swarms in the
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Some Readers think the ballad form limits their interest in The Ancient Mariner. What is your view of Coleridge’s use of this form? In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner‚ Coleridge employs the ballad form to contrast the traditional with the exotic through this he forms a poem full of supernatural elements that is easily accessible. The ballad form was a typical form of medieval poetry that was revived by the Romantics as it symbolised a form representative of an idealised past. It is also associated
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court systems and other penal codes. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps implement all this cycle with the murder of the albatross and how he must pay for his actions. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a tale of retribution‚ since the Ancient Mariner spends most of the poem paying for his one‚ impulsive error of killing the Albatross. The spiritual world avenges the Albatross’s death by wreaking physical and psychological havoc on the Ancient Mariner and his shipmates. Even before the sailors
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from death and brought good where they went. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner contains a Christian influence which represents the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Albatross represents Jesus‚ a holy man who brought good every where he went‚ both Jesus and the bird both died at the hand of a man who obtained no reason to kill them. The Albatross saved the sailors from a snowstorm‚ just as Jesus saved the human population from
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Romantic Poetry. Through this idea‚ many authors were able to convey their love of nature. In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ Coleridge uses imagery‚ alliteration and similes to demonstrate the isolation of the Mariner. In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”‚ Coleridge uses imagery to demonstrate the isolation of the mariner. “Alone‚ alone‚ all‚ all alone‚ alone on a wide sea!” (4.9) This quote illustrates the point that the mariner is very isolated after killing the Albatross‚ he doesn’t have a crew and he is
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penal codes. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps implement all this cycle with the murder of the albatross and how he must pay for his actions. The whole cycle begins with the mariner’s crime against nature: the shooting of the albatross. In the story‚ the mariner betrays nature by shooting the Albatross. This action against nature is rather extreme‚ for he takes this thought of death lightly. The Albatross‚ as a representative of nature‚ means nothing to the Mariner. These thoughts
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Christian Allegory in "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems more like a miniature epic. However‚ not only it is a ballad talking about the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for life because he kills an albatross; deeper than that‚ it is also a religious allegory conveying numerous themes pertaining to Christianity. On the one hand‚ if one reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" simply as a tale at sea‚ the
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Different Traveler Like many of his contemporaries‚ Samuel Coleridge was interested in travel and travel books he read about exotic strangers in faraway places. As a young man he even joined a group planning a utopian settlement in the United States. The scheme was abandoned‚ staying in England living in the countryside where he attracted friends including the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy to join him. One of the
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