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RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER - Coggle Diagram
RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
structure
ballad
evocative and immaginative language, full of archaism
structures from English popular ballads: dialogue, supernatural, redemption of the main character
elaborated style: repetitions, assonances and dissonances, figures of speech
rhyme
the ballad is divided in 7 parts
each part is formed by quatrain (4 lines)
rhyme schemes: ABCB
1st and 3rd line have 8 syllables
2nd and 4th line have 6 syllables
a lot of iambs
themes
perfect mix of Gothic romance, travel literaure and raditional ballad
romance: supernatural and reality are equal
before the albatross death is more real
after the albatross death is more supernatural
medieval themes: the "ghost ship", the dance of death
symbols: death = skeleton (classical tradition); albatross = untouchable (medieval tradition) / sin against god (religious interpretation) / immagination (metaphor of the artist)
psychological study of guilt, suffering and atonement
setting
1st scene: at a wedding party where the mariner begins to tell his tale
the mariner’s words then transport the reader on a long ocean voyage
returning to the wedding at the end of the poem
The story is probably set in the late medieval period; the town in which the action occurs is never named, although it is likely that Coleridge’s audience would have pictured a British seaport, possibly London
The mariner describes a voyage he takes as a youth from an unnamed European country to the South Pole and back