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HOMEWORK
Refine your understanding of the nature of
allegory
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The wedding guests resistance overcome, the
mariner immediately begins his narrative
Note:
The realism of stanza 6
The joy which accompanied the ships departure ( a parallelto the
cheers from the wedding feast)
The lightness of the rhythm by which the atmosphere ofthe
farewell is defined
The accuracy with which the images convey the shipsgradual loss
of sight of the land
The suggestion of the repetition of below of the shipsdescent
into a darker plane of existence, an otherworldliness, even below
the church ( the kirk) and all thatit symbolises, and away from the
light of the lighthouse.
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VOICE
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How many voices are there?
What types of voices do we have?
Are the voices attributed or free?
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There are three voices; thenarrator, the Mariner and the
wedding guest. All voices arespoken rather than thought.The
Wedding guests speech isfree ( so in fact more than oneguest could
be speaking). TheMariners is attributed.Coleridge establishes right
at
the start that this is a narrativepoem with a mix of
narrativeand speech. It is also dramaticand rather strange.
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Tense
He holds him with his glitteringeye -The Wedding-Guest stood
still,And listens like a three years'
child:The Mariner hath his will.
In The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, what effectis created by the Coleridge's
variation of tense?
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The Wandering Jew
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YOU DID WHAT?!
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WHY? WHY? WHY?
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An act of malignant
malice
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The ancient
Marinerinhospitably
killeth the pious
bird of good
omen.
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Liminality
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" typifies theRomantic
fascination with liminal spaces. Aliminal space is defined as a
place on the edge
of a realm or between two realms, whether aforest and a field,
or reason and imagination.A liminal space often signifies a liminal
state ofmind, such as the threshold of the
imagination's wonders. Romantics such asColeridge, Wordsworth,
and Keats valorise theliminal space and state as places where
onecan experience the sublime.
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I h A i M i ' li i l
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In the Ancient Mariner's story, liminalspaces are bewildering
and causepain. The first liminal space thesailors encounter is the
equator,
which is in a sense about as liminala location as exists; after
all, it isthe threshold between the Earth'shemispheres. No sooner
has the
ship crossed the equator than aterrible storm ensues and drives
itinto the poem's ultimate symbolicliminal space, the icy world of
the"rime." It is liminal by its veryphysical makeup; there,
waterexists not in one a single, definitivestate, but in all three
forms: liquid(water), solid (ice), and gas (mist).
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They are still most definitely in the ocean,but surrounding them
are mountainousicebergs reminiscent of the land. The
"rime" fits the archetype of theRomantic liminal space in that
it issimultaneously terrifying and beautiful,and in that the
sailors do not navigate
there purposely, but are rathertransported there by some other
force.Whereas the open ocean is a wildterritory representing the
mysteries of
the mind and the sublime, the "rime"exists just on its edge. As
a liminal spaceit holds great power, and indeed apowerful spirit
inhabits the "rime."
