The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

For the purposes of this assignment I will be examining two of Coleridge s most notable poetic works; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan. From The Rime I will be examining the poets treatment of the Mariner himself and from Kubla Khan both Kubla Khan and the unnamed poetic presence that is…

s wrote in a way that the reader is expected to temporarily allow him or herself to believe it to be able to understand it. The poem itself is about a Mariner who is telling his tale of sin and forgiveness by God to a man referred to as the “Wedding Guest.” The Mariner is…

The narrator felt excited and glad when the snake arrived at the water-trough. He viewed its visit as a guest peacefully coming to drink. However, conflicting thoughts emerged from the narrator’s human education, urging him to kill the snake as it was a venomous gold snake. Those voices told him that if he wasn’t afraid,…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as for his major prose work Biographia Literaria. Throughout his adult life, Coleridge suffered from crippling bouts…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of The Ancient Mariner in Seven Parts” is a romantic phantasy lay written in 1817. The rubric states the escapades and journeys of a curst crewman. The narrative is told by an all-knowing storyteller with the usage of the iambic tetrameter and trimeter. Within the all-knowing storyteller there is another…

When Samuel Coleridge set pen to paper, it is clear, he knew his bible good. In his Frost of the Ancient Mariner, Christian mythology and symbolism abound. The three chief elements of the narrative, the Mariner, the Albatross, and the Sun, each drama a function as Jesus. From the first stanza, Coleridge begins his scriptural…

            The lone, repentant survivor of an ill-fated ocean journey in Coleridge’s poem, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” committed a sin but received mercy and redemption that spurred him to spread his bittersweet tale for the benefit of others.  His perplexing decision to kill a playful albatross that had followed his ship for days…

Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” tells the story of an ancient mariner who kills an albatross and brings upon himself and his ship’s crew a curse. The ancient mariner travels the world, unburdening his soul, telling his story to whomever needs to hear it. Shelley alludes to the poem several times. Robert Walton in…

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…