samuel coleridge the rime of the ancient mariner

No wonder then that it is the most illustrated poem in the English language. And unlike so much poetry, where the focus is on the abstract or internal, the Mariner revels in colour and vision. It's a cracking yarn, full of rambunctious twists and swashbuckling thrills: a ship blown off-course, sea-monsters, wracking thirst, a ghost-crew, dead men's curses, isolation, visions in the sky, rescue by a wild mystic and a man transformed. Just like The Beatles' animation, The Ancient Mariner is a psychedelic sea voyage, a tale of the unexpected and a playground of sight, sound and uncertain mysticism.īut while the The Yellow Submarine revels in acid-steeped distraction, constantly losing the plot, Coleridge's poem is a masterpiece of narrative. It pushed all the same gleeful buttons in my fifteen-year-old brain. I first met this poem at exactly the time I discovered The Yellow Submarine. Introduced by a variety of writers, artists and other guests, the Scottish Poetry Library’s classic poem selections are a reminder of wonderful poems to rediscover.įrancis Bickmore on 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner': The steersman’s face by his lamp gleamed white Įach turned his face with a ghastly pang,

The main motto of this paper is to discuss the above mention aspects of the poem which can give a new light to the poem as well as to bring forth the poetic genius of Coleridge.Īrticle Info: Received: Received in revised form: Accepted: Available online: ĭOI: 10.22161/ijels.75.With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,Īnd straight the sun was flecked with bars,Īlas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)Īre those her sails that glance in the sun, Within the structural framework of seven parts, the poem is formally designed as a romantic lyrical ballad in which the basic ingredients of medieval gothic ballad tradition are satisfactory found how an adventurous journey change into a journey of sin and how the mariner harm the natural world and how he realises his sin and bent before God for forgiveness. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' as a supernatural poem, a lyrical ballad, a Christian allegory of sin, sufferings and exploitation leading to spiritual elimination along with ecocritical conscious with which ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ recently associated by the Eco critics and environmentalist.

This paper mainly tends to unify all major perspectives of critics in one single reading. Keywords: Allegorical poem, Ecocritical reading, S.T Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner,balladĪbstract: In recent times many critics view Samuel Taylor Coleridge epoch-making work ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ from many different perspectives. Vol-7,Issue-5,September - October 2022 Author: Arunava Das

Samuel coleridge the rime of the ancient mariner