REACTION TO RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Elements of poetry:
Narrative poem
is a Free verse poem: it does not use a strict rhyme scheme.
86 stanzas
23 strophes
Imperfect rhyme is most seen in the poem.
Similes: “As idle as a painted ship in a painted ocean.”
Symbol- Albatross- Is like the bird that represents the holy spirit in Christianity
What is about?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is about a Mariner that has been cursed because he killed an albatross, the curse follows him in the sea where a lot of strange things happen to him and his crew and the only way to spoil the curse is with the help of the Hermit (a holy man), who tells him to say his tale once it was told he was released from his spell but the guilt came again and persisted until he told the tale again. He knows the man he is destined to tell the tale; the wedding guest was that man.
