By Samuel Taylor Coleridge Overview The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a ballad meaning that it is a poem that tells a story and has a singsong quality There are seven parts to the poem The poem is a frame story just like Frankenstein ID: 808793
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Slide2Overview:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a ballad, meaning that it is a poem that tells a story and has a sing-song quality.
There are seven parts to the poem.
The poem is a frame story, just like Frankenstein.
Slide3Frame Story
This poem is a frame story: we begin with the mariner walking along the beach in penance for a crime, and he begins telling his story to a guest at a wedding.
We have two stories, one in which the mariner talks with the wedding guest and one in which the mariner commits his crime while sailing with his ship crew.
Slide4Note:
The Albatross
~ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner gave us a metaphor that we still use today. People will often refer to a burden as their “albatross,” which comes from this poem.
References in
Frankenstein
~ Mary Shelly references this poem in
Frankenstein
.
References to
Paradise Lost
~ Coleridge references the epic poem in
Mariner
Slide5Slide6Literary Devices to Look for:
Alliteration
~ The repetition of a sound.
Imagery
~ Figurative language that paints a picture in your mind.
Onomatopoeia
~ Sound words like “bam”
Archaisms
~
Old forms of language
Slide7Romantic Period Themes
Nature, Need to
respect nature
Dark, moody tone
The supernatural