Ballads

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Review

• 1. What’s are some differences between an Elizabethan Sonnet and and Italian Sonnet?

• 2. What is iambic pentameter?

Ballads

• Reading Schedule for “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”– Due Tuesday: Reading Questions for Parts 1, 2 & 3– Due Wednesday: Reading Questions for Part 4– Due Thursday: Reading Questions for Parts 5&6– Due Friday: Reading Questions for Part 7

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)• Romantic Movement• Transcendalism– Emerson• Anxiety and depression, possibly bipolar• Treated with laudanum, fostering an opium

addiction• 1797-98

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

• Story of a sailor/mariner who stops a man on the way to a wedding ceremony in order to tell the man his story.

• Poetic techniques used: personification, repetition, imagery

• Possibly inspired by exploratory voyages or a conversation between Coleridge and Wordsworth on a walk

Bringing it to life: Visual representations

• Appropriately illustrate your section in comic book or cartoon format—we should be able to tell the story from your illustrations

• Include specific lines, words, or phrases from your section

• Identify and include in your illustration at least one poetic element (see packet #1)

Bringing it to life: Visual representations

• Lines 1-16• Lines 17-32• Lines 33-50• Lines 51-66• Lines 67-82• Lines 83-102• Lines 103-118• Lines 119-142

Bringing it to life: Visual representations

• 1. Paraphrase your section of the poem using the guidelines from the packet.

• 2. Annotate your section of the poem using the guidelines from the board.

• 3. For the captions, use lines from the poem and parts of your paraphrase to move the plot forward

Reading Guide—Use instead of PRJPart 1 1. Where is the Ancient Mariner standing at the beginning of the poem?

• 2. In lines 10-11, how is the Ancient Mariner portrayed?

• 3. In lines 36-40, and even in 13-16, why does the Wedding Guest sit and listen to the Mariner’s story rather than joining the wedding party?

• 4. What kind of symbolism surrounds the white Albatross (see 59-66)?

• 5. How does the Mariner view the Albatross as an omen? (see 67-60)?

• 6. What is it that the Mariner does which he so much regrets?

Part 2

• 1. In lines 107-119, what happens?

• 2. When the sun begins to take its toll, what do the men need? (121-122)

• 3. Why do the sailors hang the Albatross from the Mariner’s neck? (141-142)

Part 3

• 1. The men spot a sail on the horizon in lines 160-161, and the men think that this ship is going to come to the rescue. But the ship is standing completely upright. Why should the men be a little suspicious about this ship on the horizon? (see line 169)

• 2. Who does the Mariner see on the decks of the ship? (see 185-194)

• 3. What are the “twain” (pair of persons) doing on the approaching ship? (195)

• 4. Why do you think that they are doing what they’re doing?

• 5. What happens to all the other sailors except the Mariner? (see 216-219)