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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” begins when an old man stops a bridegroom on the way to his wedding. “There was a ship,” he begins and launches into the haunting story of his last journey to sea. When his ship got stuck in weather near Antarctica, an albatross appeared and lead them back to safety.
16 de fev. de 2021 · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s most popular poem. It opened the 1798 first edition of Lyrical Ballads, where it first appeared; Coleridge revised it for the 1800 edition and undertook further revisions later, after his sea voyage to Malta (where he went to recover his health), revisions that include the…
The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen. 'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus!— 80 Why look'st thou so?'—'With my crossbow I shot the Albatross. PART II 'The Sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, 85Still hid in mist, and on the left Went down into the sea.
Many argue that the Rime of the Ancient Mariner was inspired by accounts of voyages to the Antarctic by James Cook or the Arctic by Thomas James. Wordsworth, however, claimed that the poem was inspired by a conversation between himself and the poet regarding George Shelvocke’s A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, a 1726 book that Wordsworth was reading that included an ...
When it was published in the summer of 1798 in Lyrical Ballads, which gathered poems by both writers, it was by far the longest in the book. George Shelvocke’s Voyage Round the World by way of the Great South Sea (1726) provided the source material for the shooting of the albatross in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’.
7 de mar. de 2024 · Summary of “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Part 1: The Mariner’s Tale: The poem begins with an old sailor, the Ancient Mariner, stopping a young wedding guest on his way to a wedding celebration. The Mariner compels the young man to listen to his tale, which recounts a harrowing journey at sea. Part 2: The Crew’s Fate: During the voyage ...
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is the only poem on which Coleridge continued to work – and unarguably improve – until shortly before his death. Faced with the widespread criticism of the poem’s archaic language and general inaccessibility, Coleridge modernised around 40 spellings and terms, deleted 46 lines and added seven new ones.
