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The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner
by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Make sure you have your Alquin and a notebook on your table and a pen in your hand.
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Planning
After spring break: Listening Test. Practise with the CITO listening tests on Woots.nl
Hand in book report:
Deadline _____ ?
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Literary devices
I've uploaded a glossary of literary devices on itslearning. You do NOT need to know the entire list, just make sure you know the following (I may add to this list later on):
metaphor
ballad
simile
meter
sonnet
alliteration
iambic pentameter
rhyme scheme
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 - 1834
Youngest son of a clergyman in Devon
Not wealthy, especially after his father died.
Bright pupil, studied at Cambridge
Addicted to opium (and alcohol and women)
Wrote The Lyrical Balads, together with Wordsworth, and thus started the Romantic Period
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Turbulent life: discharged from army, opium-addiction, bad health, bad relationship with his wife, financial problems, unable to hold a job.
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Background information
- Longest poem major poem by Coleridge
- Published in 1798 in the first edition of LyricalBallads
- Along with other poems considered the beginning of modern poetry and Romanticism 1800-1830 (the everyday man is the subject, emotion and the supernatural)
- Art ballad
- Nature is described
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Background information
BALLAD: a NARRATIVE of unknown authorship passed on in the oral tradition. It often makes use of repetition and DIALOGUE. A ballad whose author is known is called a literary ballad.
ART BALLAD: imitates the style of a mediaeval ballad, but with contemporary elaborations and features.
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The poem
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner recounts the experiences of a sailor after a long sea voyage.
The man stops a wedding guest on his way to the ceremony, at first the wedding guest doesn't want to listen but something grabs hold of his attention making him listen to the story (even though he had mixed feelings about it)
Story within a story (link-and-frame)
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Part 1
- Wedding guest
- Story begins: the Antarctic
- Albatross= good/holy, lucky omen
- The Mariner shot the Albatross
- The crew is angry at the Mariner
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Part 2
- Albatross was suddenly seen as a bad omen
- Things started to go south (crew regretted praising the killing of the Albatross)
- Sea filled with fire and slimy creatures
- Ship got stuck
- Crew didn't have water anymore
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Part 3
- Ghost-ship appears
- On board: Death and a beautiful woman called Life-in-Death
- Casting dice to decide upon the fate of the ship
- Life-in-Death: mariner
- Death: the rest of the crew
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Part 4
- Mariner accepts he's cursed
- Tried to pray, but wasn't possible until he accepted God's creatures/creations
- He gets back to England led by the crew possessed by spirits
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Part 5/end
- Everything changes for the better: Mariner is saved and is forgiven by a holy man.
- Mariner has to tell the story over and over again (his penance).
- God has made/created us all, so respect nature and all of creation.
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Homework Wednesday
1. Answer the questions on the Ancient Mariner (p. 25) and hand in your answers on itslearning (don't forget!). You can skip the additional assignment.
2. Read the introduction on William Blake (p. 48-50). We'll start analyzing his works on Wednesday.