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“Rime of the Ancient Mariner Pt. 3”by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834) Presented by: Shuntaria Davis Alicia Dixon Introduction “Rime of the Ancient Mariner Pt. 3”by: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) About Samuel… Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary. After his fathers death Coleridge was sent away to Christs Hospital School in London and also studied at Jesus College. In Cambridge Coleridge met the radical, future poet laureate Robert Southey. Coleridges collection Poems On Various Subjects was published in 1796, and in 1797 appeared Poems. In the same year he began the publication of a short-lived liberal political periodical The Watchman. He started a close friendship with Dorothy and William Wordsworth, from it resulted Lyrical Ballads, which opened with Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner and ended with Wordsworths Tintern Abbey. Suffering from neuralgic and rheumatic pains, Coleridge had become addicted to opium. During the following years he lived in London, on the verge of suicide. He died in Highgate, near London on July 25, 1834. MLA Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. The Literature Network: Online Classic Literature, Poems, and Quotes. Essays Summaries. Web. 07 Feb. 2011. /coleridge/. The Poem There passed a weary time. Each throatWas parched, and glazed each eye.A weary time! a weary time!How glazed each weary eye,When looking westward, I beheldA something in the sky. At first it seemed a little speck,And then it seemed a mist:It moved and moved, and took at lastA certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist!And still it neared and neared:As if it dodged a water-sprite,It plunged and tacked and veered. With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,We could not laugh nor wail;Through utter drought all dumb we stood!I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,And cried, A sail! a sail! With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,Agape they heard me c