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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834) English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads, written with Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement. Although Coleridges poetic achievement was small in quantity, his metaphysical anxiety, anticipating modern existentialism, has gained him reputation as an authentic visionary. In Cambridge Coleridge met the radical, future poet laureate Robert Southey (1774-1843) in 1794. Coleridge moved with him to Bristol to establish a community, but the plan failed. In 1795 he married the sister of Southey‘s fiancée Sara Fricker, whom he did not really love. Rime of the Ancient Mariner This 625-line lyrical ballad is among his essential works. It tells of a sailor who kills an albatross and for that crime against nature endures terrible punishments. Lyric Ballad- an emotional responses to the natural and supernatural in conversational verse. Story: The ship upon which the Mariner serves is trapped in a frozen sea. An albatross comes to the aid of the ship, it saves everyone, and stays with the ship until the Mariner shoots it with his crossbow. Allegory An extended metaphor in which a person, abstract idea...It usually involves moral or spiritual concepts which are more significant than the actual narrative. Many critics see the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” as an allegory. Of Coleridge Of Lucifer Of Adam Eve …forbidden fruit …cast into hell opium? “…the very deep did rot…” “…slimy things … Slimy sea” “I shot the albatross” “…and I had done a hellish thing…” “witch’s oils, / …burnt green, and blue and white” Phantasmagoria! A shifting series or succession of things seen or imagined, as in a dream. STRUCTURE of the poem: Sin Punishment Redemption Rime of the Ancient Mariner Paul Gustave Doré (1832 – 1883) was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving and steel engraving. Rime of the Ancient Ma