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    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    IN SEVEN PARTS
    by
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    1798

    Gustave Doré (1832-83)--popular and


    successful French book illustrator of the mid
    19th century
    http://dore.artpassions.net
    http://etext.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poem
    s/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html

    ● “How a Ship having passed the Line was driven


    by storms to the cold Country towards the South
    Pole ; and how from thence she made her
    course to the tropical Latitude of the Great
    Pacific Ocean ; and of the strange things that
    befell ; and in what manner the Ancyent
    Marinere came back to his own Country.”
    Poetic Form: Ballad

    A typical ballad is a plot-driven song, with one or


    more characters hurriedly unfurling events leading
    to a dramatic conclusion. At best, a ballad does not
    tell the reader what’s happening, but rather shows
    the reader what’s happening, describing each
    crucial moment in the trail of events. To convey
    that sense of emotional urgency, the ballad is often
    constructed in quatrain stanzas, each line
    containing as few as three or four stresses and
    rhyming either the second and fourth lines, or all
    alternating lines.

    http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5769
    http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/
    animals/birds/albatross.html
    ● Wide-winged and long-lived, albatrosses are
    rarely seen on land, preferring to stay out on the
    ocean except to mate and raise their young.
    ● Longest wingspan of any bird—up to 11 feet
    ● Long-lived birds who have reached a
    documented 50 years of age
    ● Size comparative to a 6-ft man
    Plate 4:
    The Ship
    Fled the
    Storm
    Plate 6:
    The Ice
    was All
    Around
    Plate 7:
    The
    Albatross
    Plate 8:
    I shot the Albatross
    Plate 10:
    Water, water, every
    where
    Water, water, every where,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, every where,
    Nor any drop to drink.
    Plate 14:
    The Game is Done!
    Plate 18:
    And yet
    I could not die
    Plate 17:
    I looked upon the
    rotting sea
    Plate 20:
    I watched
    the water-snakes
    Plate 30:
    The skiff-boat
    nears
    Plate 32: The Pilot
    Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
    To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
    He prayeth well, who loveth well
    Both man and bird and beast.

    He prayeth best, who loveth best


    All things both great and small;
    For the dear God who loveth us,
    He made and loveth all.
    The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
    Whose beard with age is hoar,
    Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest
    Turned from the bridegroom's door.

    He went like one that hath been stunned,


    And is of sense forlorn:
    A sadder and a wiser man,
    He rose the morrow morn.

    http://poetry.eserver.org/ancient-mariner.html

    EServer, a non-profit collective of students and faculty


    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    (1772 - 1834)

    "The proper and immediate object of poetry is the


    communication of pleasure . . .
    I wish our clever young poets would remember
    my homely definitions of prose and poetry;
    that is,
    prose: words in their best order;
    poetry: the best words in the best order."
    Centennial High School

    English 12
    ~November 2012~

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