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SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER - Coggle Diagram
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Romanticism
a reaction to the Industrial Revolution
the end of the 17th century
revolt against the political norms of the Age of the Enlightenment
intellectuals
thrilled and inspired
Revolutionaries rising up and demanding their rights
publication of Lyrical Ballads
1798
Lake Poets
W. Wordsworth
S. T. Coleridge
the start of the Romantic movement
opened with "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
revolutionary
used the language of working classes
Industrial Revolution
transformed the social landscape
enable manufacturers and capitalists to amass huge fortune
new factories were built
means of producing goods more quickly and cheaply
most poor children worked there
working for long hours
help the family's budget
dangerous jobs
blacking warehouses
inreased social mobility
wide gap between the rich and the poor
people moved from the country to the city
in search of opportunities
overpopulated migration
aim
create
political and social freedom
equality
brotherhood
democracy
Romantic poets
aware of the changes
contrast between the hellish life of city labourer and the purity and tranquility of nature/simplicity of other historical eras
Romantics
enthusiastic about nature
appreciated areas in nature
had not been touched by human intervention
simple, rural life
had not been influenced or ruined by the Industrial Revolution
man lived in harmony with nature
ideal
Publication date
1798
Themes
nature
supernatural
sin and redemption
the gravity of his sin haunts the Mariner
many years after killing the albatross
rain
love and pride
love
the source of power
Christ's instruction
the greatest commandment
Motifs
conversation poems
the act of storytelling
Mariner
tells his story
teaches a spiritual lesson to those he meets
retribution
voyage, journey
Odyssey
external voyage
internal voyage
stages
home
beginning
end
South Pole
danger
realm of death
sin
violation of the order of the world
Equator
stage of spiritual death
rebirth
man losts his divine grace
Symbols
the Sun
angry, vengeful God
the Moon
benevolent God
the albatross
good luck
positive events
faithful companion
land
safety
Nightmare life-in-death
punishment
Death
wins the lives of the crew
Nightmare Life in Death
wins the life of the Mariner
water
sea
open space
everything becomes clear
justice can be done
ice
stands for the threat of death
rain
redemption
life
glimpsing
new baptism
sleep and dream
temporary death
necessary for rebirth
Literary devices
rhyme
alliteration
personification
consonance
assonance
imagery
vivid descriptions through repetitions
water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink
the ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around
Point of view
first person
third person
the frame story begins
Genres
ballad
circular structure
divided into seven parts
tragic theme
built on a plot
deus ex machina
characters
heighten musicality
mysterious elements
poem
dramatic monologue
identified speaker
the Mariner
silent audience
Wedding-Guest
story of initiation
associated with myths
parable
fall of a man
story
importance of balance and harmony among all living things
Mariner's tale
interpreted in terms of Christian religion
voyage
purgatorial
follows the pattern of guilt, penance and rebirth
Albatross
the symbol of Christ
cosmic play
his killing of the Albatross
violated the fundamental principle in nature
has to pay for it
Characters
the Mariner
kills the albatross
brakes the natural connection between man, nature and fate
misfortune
Albatross
sacrificial victim
save humanity
original sin
Title
Rime
the mariner's story
his rhyme
metonymy for the poem
crime of the mariner
frost coating ice
ice
death
the crew has no escape and no hope
Structure
built on contrast
life and death
light and darkness
cold and heat