Part V Alexandra, Dan, and Skye - PowerPoint Presentation

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Part VAlexandra, Dan, and Skye

The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSlide2

OH sleep! it is a gentle thing,

Beloved from pole to pole!

To Mary Queen the praise be given!She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,That slid into my soul.The silly buckets on the deck,That had so long remained,I dreamt that they were filled with dew;And when I awoke, it rained.My lips were wet, my throat was cold,My garments all were dank;Sure I had drunken in my dreams,And still my body drank.

Finally the mariner can

sleep/pray

and mercifully escape his morbid reality/the curse

Gloss:

“By grace of the Holy Mother, the Ancient Mariner is refreshed with rain [and sleep]”

Alliteration

5 line distinction

s

illy

: from the Middle English

seli

for blessed, the Old English

gesaelig

for blessed, and the Gothic

sels

for good

Turning point; reversal of fate/punishment

Alliteration

Relief comes with the long-awaited quenching of thirst

Baptism? - renewal

Reversal of fate:

“With throats

unslaked

and black lips baked” (III).Slide3
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I moved, and could not feel my limbs:

I was so light--almost

I thought that I had died in sleep,And was a bless'ed ghost.And soon I heard a roaring wind:It did not come anear;But with its sound it shook the sails,That were so thin and sere.The upper air burst into life!And a hundred fire-flags sheen,To and fro they were hurried about!And to and fro, and

in and out

,

The wan stars danced between.

Numb with joy/deliriousness

Dream-like state vs. reality

What is real at this point?

Ironic b/c crewmates will soon become ghosts - foreshadowing

“blessed” has good connotations

Contradiction of seeing and hearing the wind but not feeling it

Alliteration

Mimics sound of the wind

Personification of air, flags, & stars

To and fro:

r

epetition, pacing, parallelism

fire-flags:

either lightning, aurora borealis, or St. Elmo’s Fire

Electricity in the atmosphere (bad omen)

Change from fear to aweSlide5

And

the coming wind did roar more loud,

And the sails did sigh like sedge;And the rain poured down from one black cloud;The Moon was at its edge.The thick black cloud was cleft, and stillThe Moon was at its side:Like waters shot from some high crag,The lightning fell with never a jag,A river steep and wide.The loud wind never reached the ship,Yet now the ship moved on!Beneath the lightning and the MoonThe dead men gave a

g

roan.

Anaphora & Alliteration

Simile: comparison to grass

Unnatural; divine intervention

Black = ominous

Personified natural element

5 line

distiction

Vivid/surreal imagery

Simile

&

hyperbole

Straight, huge bolts of lightning

Strange, wild, scary?

Natural becoming supernatural

Gloss:

“the ship’s crew [is]

inspired

, and the ship moves on”

Mystical representation of illuminating elements – divine significance

Alliteration, onomatopoeia Slide6

They

groaned,

they stirred, they all uprose,Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;It had been strange, even in a dream,To have seen those dead men rise.The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;Yet never a breeze up-blew;The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,Where they were wont to do;They raised their limbs like lifeless tools--We were a ghastly crew.The body of my brother's sonStood by me, knee to knee:The body and I pulled at one rope,But he said nought to me.

Parallel

structure

Eye

motif

Dream vs. reality

Bizarre, but not frightening

6 line distinction

Dead men perform old tasks

Simile

–

their own limbs are foreign

Includes himself in the ghastly crew

Refers back to previous line

His dead nephew works beside him

Nothing more than the empty shell of a body

UnspeakingSlide7
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'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!'

Be calm,

thou Wedding-Guest!'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,Which to their corses came again,But a troop of spirits blest:For when it dawned--they dropped their arms,And clustered round the mast;Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,And from their bodies passed.Around, around, flew each sweet sound,Then darted to the Sun;

S

lowly the

sounds came back again,

Now mixed, now one by one.

Diversion away from the story back to the Wedding, 5 lines distinction

Old English influence

“But not by the souls of the men, nor by demons of earth or middle air, but by

a blessed troop of angelic spirits

, sent down by the invocation of the guardian saint.”

Proof to him that their bodies are filled by angels

Alliteration

enhances the euphony

Repetition

Personification of the sounds of their soulsSlide9
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S

ometimes a-dropping from the

skyI heard the sky-lark sing;Sometimes all little birds that are,How they seemed to fill the sea and airWith their sweet jargoning!And now 'twas like all instruments,Now like a lonely flute;And now it is an angel's song,That makes the heavens be mute.

It cea

s

ed; yet

s

till the

s

ails made on

A

plea

s

ant noise till noon,A noise like of a hidden brookIn the leafy month of June,That to the sleeping woods all nightSingeth a quiet tune.

5 line distinction

The Mariner compares the singing to the spirits to the singing of birds

Reference back to birds;

positive; birds

thought to be a good omen at

sea

Skylark Symbolism-

Associated with Christ, prayer

More alliteration of the “

s

” sound

Diction choice – delicate and beautiful

Singing is now compared to instruments and a lonely flute using a

simile

, and a angel’s song using a

metaphor

.

6 line distinction

Continued positive descriptions, pleasant diction

Simile

More “

s

” alliteration

Personification of the woods and of the sail’s “song”Slide11

Till noon we

quietly

sailed on,Yet never a breeze did breathe:Slowly and smoothly went the Ship,Moved onward from beneath.Under the keel nine fathom deep,From the land of mist and snow,The spirit slid: and it was heThat made the ship to go.The sails at noon left off their tune,And the ship stood still also.

The Sun, right up above the mast,

Had fixed her to the ocean:

But in a minute she '

gan

stir,

With a short uneasy motion--

Backwards and forwards half her length

With a short uneasy motion.

Euphonic language

Double

alliteration

Mystical: the boat is still moving without wind

Gloss:

“The lonesome spirit from the south-pole carries on the ship as far as the line, in obedience to the angelic troop, but still

requireth

vengeance. “

6 lines distinction, shows that a change is coming

Alliteration

Internal rhyme

His theory is that a spirit made the ship go

6 line distinction

When the ship crosses the equator, the confusion

returns

Personification of the ship

Fantastical events; the boat is moving backwards and forwards

Repetition

highlights thisSlide12

Then

like

a pawing horse let go,She made a sudden bound:It flung the blood into my head,And I fell down in a swound.How long in that same fit I lay,I have not to declare;But ere my living life returned,I heard and in my soul discernedTwo voices in the air.'Is it he?' quoth one, 'Is this the man?By him who died on cross,With his cruel bow he laid full lowThe harmless Albatross.

Simile

Continued personification of the ship

Swound

—Middle English, alteration of swoon

Mariner is knocked unconscious by ship’s unnatural movement

5 line distinction

Shows his confusion/disorientation

Are there really voices? Or is he imagining it? – Reality

vs

surrealism

Gloss:

“The Polar Spirits fellow-demons, the invisible inhabitants of the element, take part in his wrong; and two of them relate, one to the other that

penance long and heavy for the ancient Mariner hath been accorded to the Polar Spirit,

who

returneth

southward

.”

Religious reference - Jesus

Juxtaposition of his

cruel

deed against the

harmless

AlbatrossSlide13
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The spirit who

bideth

by himselfIn the land of mist and snow,He loved the bird that loved the manWho shot him with his bow.’The other was a softer voice,As soft as honey-dew:Quoth he, 'The man hath penance done,And penance more will do.'

Offers an explanation for why the spirit is making the ancient mariner pay

“The land of mist and snow” is frequently repeated – refers to the frozen land they passed through previously

Simile

Crime/punishment

Penance- repentance of sins, Roman Catholic

ForeshadowingSlide15

In

the beginning of Part V, the Mariner is finally able to fall asleep and mercifully, rain falls and quenches his thirst. This marks what seems like the end of his hellish punishment and a turn in fate for the Mariner. A mysterious wind, seen but unfelt, blows the ship in the right direction - mystical natural elements like this and the “fire-flags” straddle the line between surrealism and reality and give this part of the poem a dream-like quality. Whether this is caused by the Mariner’s current physical state or real elemental qualities is unclear.

The mariner’s dead crew mates rise up and begin to work the ship, moving it forward. There is a quick break back to reality and the Wedding-Guest states his fear, though it is apparent that he is also still in awe, and the story continues when he is reminded that these were good spirits. Their angelic souls begin to swing from earth into heaven, and they drop once again. Eyes appear again here as a motif - always watching (and judging?) the Mariner. Without her crew, the ship sails on with the help of the spirit below it. The mariner falls when the ship is jerked forward unnaturally and eventually hears two voices conversing about him. Crime and punishment remains a common theme here. After identifying him, the softer of the two voices foreshadows that, though Part V marks the turning point from the mariner’s punishment, his sentence has yet to be fulfilled: 'The man hath penance done, / And penance more will do.'