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The rime of the ancient mariner,
The rime of the ancient mariner,
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The full meaning of this stanza is reserved till stanzas OXXXIII and CXXXIV when we have come under the spell of the old sailor and realize fully how powerful and impelling his manner is, and how speech has to him still the value of a confession.
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Watch for other cases in which Coleridge employs two
tenses, and see what effect he gains. “Spake” in the next line is another old form used to keep the atmosphere.
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The story begins; see how much is covered in one stanza.
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Which way was the ship going?
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ExcelIcnt use of alliteration in these two lines. Note how often Coleridge employs this feature of the old ballads. The next stanza is more artistic in its use than this one. with d’s and s’s blending.
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A physical fact; the rarified air made objects stand out just as they were. These two stanzas are hardly surpassed in literature for the clear-cut picture they present, cf. 11. 171
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Note other uses of repetition. This stanza has been repeated carelessly so often it has lost some of its effect.
It is full of suggestion if read with the context: cf. stanza LIV, where the larger vowel sounds aid in building a sense of desolation we miss here.6
Note how one gets the feeling for these hideous objects where the mariner can give them no names—as if they were unnameable.
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cf.
Macbeth
I, iii, 33.
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A dictionary will tell an interesting story of the orig;n
of this word.
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Do you know other witch-creatures in literature? This is a vivid and startling picture of the creatures who inhabit the phantom ship. Note, in the next stanza, that this terrible creature wins the mariner and thus reserves him for a worse fate than death.
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Very concrete imagery, and a sense of almost breathless quickness in the physical changes involved. The “courts of the sun” are the tropics.
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One of the most remarkable stanzas in the poem. Its
unusual length gives a retarded effect to the narrative, while its images, notably that in the second and third lines, are rich with poetic meaning.
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This is a variant of the Old English
aor,
meaning “be
