The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is divided among 4 sections: crime, punishment, forgiveness, and penance. In the beginning of the poem, Mariner stops three wedding guests; however, only one of them stays to listen to his story. It is a story about Mariner’s salvation journey. First, he commits a crime. Mariner’s crime is killing the innocent Albatross. Albatross is symbolize for hope and good luck. Albatross also has a strong Christian symbol: a white bird like The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit opens the path to salvation. He kills the bird for no reason. At first, the crew is furious at the Mariner for killing their good luck; however, when the Albatross dies, the fog goes away. This makes the crew think that Albatross
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Coleridge uses repetition for accentuation. For example, “Below the kirk, below the hill, below the lighthouse top” is use to emphasis the setting. He uses alliteration to make the lines memorable. For example, “The Wedding Guest beat his breast for he heard the loud bassoon” is used to give the poem a musical aspect. He also uses assonance and consonance for musical aspect as well. “Yet he cannot choose but hear” is an example of assonance. “And a good south wind sprung up from behind” is an example of consonance because the wind and behind are consonant sounds in stressed syllables. Coleridge uses personification to give non-human elements an active role in the poem. For example, the sun is called “he” in several occasion. This can also be used as allusion. He also uses metaphor to describe and compare two things. For example, “All the world’s stage” is used to compare the world to the stage in which men and women are just the players. They must enter and exit accordingly. Similarly, he uses the similes for the same reason. In this simile, “The water, like a witch’s oils, burned green and blue and white” depicts how the water looked with the demise fire. There are numerous internal rhyme throughout the poem. It is used to make the poem more poetic and gives feeling to the line. In this line, “The ship drove fast, lous roared the blast”, the fast and blast is used to make it sounds like music to the reader’s hear. The tone of the
Coleridge uses repetition for accentuation. For example, “Below the kirk, below the hill, below the lighthouse top” is use to emphasis the setting. He uses alliteration to make the lines memorable. For example, “The Wedding Guest beat his breast for he heard the loud bassoon” is used to give the poem a musical aspect. He also uses assonance and consonance for musical aspect as well. “Yet he cannot choose but hear” is an example of assonance. “And a good south wind sprung up from behind” is an example of consonance because the wind and behind are consonant sounds in stressed syllables. Coleridge uses personification to give non-human elements an active role in the poem. For example, the sun is called “he” in several occasion. This can also be used as allusion. He also uses metaphor to describe and compare two things. For example, “All the world’s stage” is used to compare the world to the stage in which men and women are just the players. They must enter and exit accordingly. Similarly, he uses the similes for the same reason. In this simile, “The water, like a witch’s oils, burned green and blue and white” depicts how the water looked with the demise fire. There are numerous internal rhyme throughout the poem. It is used to make the poem more poetic and gives feeling to the line. In this line, “The ship drove fast, lous roared the blast”, the fast and blast is used to make it sounds like music to the reader’s hear. The tone of the