Samuel Coleridge was an amazing poet. Many of his poems have a crazy, mystical feeling to them. This, for the most part, is because he was usually high on drugs when he wrote his poems. His poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, is the poem that brought about many popular, widely written-about topics. The movies, The Pirates of the Caribbean, come from this poem. The whole idea of people being dead, but still, somehow, able to function comes from this poem. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the most influential poems of the English language. A sailor tells a story to a young wedding guest. Here is a brief summary: the sailor was on a ship which got caught in a current, and carried to the far south, becoming trapped in ice. After a long time, an albatross showed up, and mysteriously, the ice gave way for the ship to escape and sail north. The mariner made a big mistake. He says in his story, “With my crossbow, I shot the albatross.” When they got to the equator, they hit the doldrums, where there was no wind to push the ship any further. The superstitious sailors assumed that it was because the mariner had shot the albatross. A mysterious skeleton ship came along, and death took the whole crew, but the man who had shot the albatross. The dead bodies kept staring at him. After a while, when he was about to die of dehydration and starvation, the sailor started to appreciate and respect nature. The albatross, which had been hung around his neck, fell off into the sea. It started to rain. The winds picked up. The sailor would be free, finally. Except, he needed the crew to help work the ship. They woke up and helped move the sails and steer the ship back home. When he reached the harbor, the souls all le...
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...This is probably my favorite poem that I’ve ever read. It has such influence on so many popular ideas today. It talks about loving and respecting nature, which I agree with completely. When I hear of people killing animals just for fun, it makes me mad. It’s hard to make me mad, but one thing that never fails is total lack of respect for nature, or anything, for that matter. I think we should all take a good hard look at a certain stanza of this poem again. “He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.” If everyone understood these lines, and took them to heart, Coleridge would be very pleased, and the mariner’s penance would have not been served in vain. The world would be a better place. Man and nature would no longer be “out of tune.” This is the romantic poem of romantic poems.
In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the author uses the story of a sailor and his adventures to reveal aspects of life. This tale follows the Mariner and his crew as they travel between the equator and the south pole, and then back to England. The author's use of symbolism lends the work to adults as a complex web of representation, rather than a children's book about a sailor.First, in the poem, the ship symbolizes the body of man. The ship experiences trials and tribulations just as a real person does. Its carrying the Mariner (symbolizing the individual soul) and crew shows that Coleridge saw the body as a mere vessel of the soul. This symbol of a boat is an especially powerful one, because one steers a ship to an extent, yet its fate lies in the hands of the winds and currents.Secondly, the albatross symbolizes Christ. Just as the Mariner senselessly slays the bird, man crucifies Christ whose perfection is unchallenged. Even though Christ represents mankind's one chance at achieving Heaven, man continues to persecute Him. The albatross symbolizes the sailors' one chance at deliverance from icy death and the Mariner shoots him.Thirdly, the South Pole symbolizes Hell. No visible wind blows the unfortunate crew toward the South Pole. Rather, an unseen force pulls them there. Such is the case when the world's temptations lure one to Hell. Just as the sailors approach far to close to this icy purgatory, their Redeemer, the albatross, or at least his spirit, leads them safely back in the right direction.Fourthly, in the poem England symbolizes Heaven. When the Mariner first sees his country, a great sense of hope and joy overcome him. At the point when the Mariner is about to enter Heaven, the body, symbolized by the ship, must die.
“Stay here and listen to the nightmares of the sea” - Iron Maiden (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) In “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge illustrates the story through the belief in God, and Christian faith. Throughout Mariner’s journey, many signified meanings interpret an important role such as, religious and natural symbolisms.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Wrong Actions The idea of people making wrong actions and having to pay for them afterwards is not new. The Christian religion centers itself around the confession of sins done by men or women. Luckily, they have the power to repent and do penance to receive God’s forgiveness. God sends people this power and people around the world mimic this cycle of crime, punishment, repentance, and reconciliation in court systems and other penal codes.
The importance of religion during the Romantic period was massive. The people of this time period often turned to religion when faced with unexplainable events. In an academic journal reviewing Coleridge’s poem, Christopher Stokes says, “(The poem) Focuses on the irrational moral order presented in the poem and its foundation in the Christian doctrine of original sin” (Stokes 1). Coleridge’s work is essentially a large prayer by having the Mariner learn through experience within his journey. At the beginning of part III the Mariner could not speak because he was so thirsty. The inability to speak comes from the punishment the Mariner received for his actions or in the Christian view, sins. In addition to speaking the Mariner also was cursed with the loss of ability to pray. The Mariner had to deal with the lack of water in the poem. The Mariner was forced to find a way out of the drought when he said, “With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,/ We could nor laugh nor wail;/ Through utter drought all dumb we stood!/ I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,/ And cried, A sail! a sail!” (Co...
He has to feel a pain in his chest that becomes unbearable until he sees a certain soul that is the right one to tell. No matter what. In the long poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge has three lessons about human life: supernatural, pride, and suffering. In “Rime” by Sam Coleridge, the mariner goes through many supernatural events that scare him into submission. Coleridge does a great job of describing the scenery around the boat that the mariner resides in.
In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Coleridge does not tell us why the mariner killed the albatross. By leaving this out, he suggests that it was a senseless act devoid of reason and respect for all things that God created, “both great and small” (272). As the mariner kills the bird after it has been friendly to him and has granted the crew and the ship a safe voyage thus far, by providing the reader with no explanation as to why he kills the albatross so suddenly, it is very surprising and cruel. As the bird seems to be an omen, “a Christian soul...hailed in God’s name” (258:65-66), when the mariner kills it, it is direct defiance of God.
A tragic hero is defined as a character that commits an error that ultimately leads to their downfall. Much like an epic hero, a tragic hero follows a certain path throughout the story which can be identified using the Zellar Chart. The narrator in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is an example of a classical tragic figure by exhibiting many traits of the archetype and following the zeller chart.
A short time later, Coleridge died, but only after some of the most peaceful years of his life. “The Rime” is a supernaturally based poem, which is full of imaginative symbolism and imagery. Despite its numerous revisions, it is still a defining piece of literature from the Romantic period. While several approaches can be taken to investigate the poem, a biographical analysis provides an insightful look into the life of the author that created the work. In “The Rime,” Coleridge has the Mariner facing many of the same obstacles that he faced throughout his life, including death, isolation, constant wandering, and a final search for salvation.
I think that this poem has the capability of bringing attention to viewers of how far away all of us have drifted from nature. I think of last week when I visited Sioux Falls for the first time, I was truly shocked as I looked around and saw a large number of people so focused on their various versions of technology that they didn’t see Gods beauty passing by. I think this piece presents a challenging new idea that the simpler times are truly gone. I believe that it has become uncommon for people to seek out the sense of peace from nature that the author describes in this poem in today’s era. It is truly incredible to me how we can tread along in the mundaneness of life, and then suddenly an old thought is dragged from the dark recesses of our minds and becomes new again.
An old Mariner stopped a man who was on his way to a wedding. The fisherman
...ous allegory represents Christian ideals such as sin, forgiveness, and prayer. In addition, Coleridge’s use of language and form contribute to the message conveyed in the text. The form fluctuates throughout the text by use of different rhyme schemes, loose meter, and stanzas in length varying four to nine lines. The variety of form could be representative the array of interpretations of this text. Coleridge conveys profound religious meaning by using symbolic language with interpretive representations. Although his use of elevated language possibly narrowed the audience, that could have been his intentions due to the complexities of this philosophical poem. In the end, Coleridge’s depiction of the Mariner’s journey ultimately conveys the Christian ideal, which is to love and appreciate all creatures created by God, whether Albatross or snake.
Wordsworth and Hopkins both present the reader with a poem conveying the theme of nature. Nature in its variety be it from something as simple as streaked or multicolored skies, long fields and valleys, to things more complex like animals, are all gifts we take for granted. Some never realize the truth of what they are missing by keeping themselves indoors fixating on the loneliness and vacancy of their lives and not on what beauty currently surrounds them. Others tend to relate themselves more to the fact that these lovely gifts are from God and should be praised because of the way his gifts have uplifted our human spirit. Each writer gives us their own ideals as how to find and appreciate nature’s true gifts.
Authors who often wrote works in the Gothic and Dark Romantic period were sometimes referred to as Dark Romantics. Their startling stories used imagination, feelings, and intuition. Unlike past periods, Dark Romantics focused on the importance of a single person verses a whole group. There are many characteristics that make a piece a part of the period, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of those pieces. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is characterized as Gothic or Romantic literature because of its foreboding, omen motif, and the environment describe in the story.
Stories have been used to teach lessons to the readers. The lessons in the story centered around were about morals and would forewarn the dangers if a person acted in a destructive manner. The Golden Rule is a well-known moral with an idea is that a person should treat others the way they wish to be treated. The Golden Rule can be portrayed to correlate with religious views. The Golden Rule is the moral to the story in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Coleridge because of the actions that occurred from events involving the Albatross.
“Water, water, everywhere / Nor any drop to drink” (Coleridge lines II.121-122). These often repeated lines of poetry are found in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, undoubtedly Samuel Coleridge’s most famous work. As this poem opens, the reader finds the Mariner, a former sailor, pulling aside a man to listen to a harrowing adventure he once had while at sea. Despite expressing reluctance at first, this man, simply referred to as the Wedding Guest, is soon spellbound by the Mariner and compelled to listen to his story. This woeful tale leaves him “[a] sadder and a wiser man” (VII.624), but what exactly about this story has evoked this response?