Thanks to Tamara for taking these extensive notes in class!
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from page 686
1.going to a wedding ~~~~> mariner stops someone ~~~~> and tells a story
2.on a ship ~~~~> storm ~~~~> stuck in the ice somewhere in the south pole
3.Albatross arrives ~~~~> things get better ~~~~> then the mariner shoots it! (how cruel!) ~~~~> then the fog clears [the crew praise his actions]
4.the wind dies ~~~~> stuck in the doldrums (sailing on the ocean where there is no wind, no current the ship can’t move at all!) ~~~~> the crew members give the mariner the dead 5.Albatross as a reward ~~~~> the mariner must wear it around his neck
6. another ship appears on the horizon, when blocking the sun it resembles a skeleton?
7.passengers of the ship are ~~~~> Life and Death ~~~~> playing dice
death wins the mariner (cursed)
8.shipmates all die! ~~~~> their spirits/souls all “wiz” (is an onomatopoeia) by ~~~~> the dead bodies of the crew mates are staring at the mariner because he caused them their lives
9.blesses the snakes ~~~~> then the Albatross falls off of his neck, therefore the curse has been lifted ~~~~> the crew doesn’t talk to the mariner, but they do get back to work ~~~~> the mariner can hear this singing that the crew members seem to be making
10.wind picks up ~~~~> the mariner faints ~~~~> begins to hear voices of two people talking about how the mariner will do more penance
11.wakes up from his dream ~~~~> boat slows done ~~~~>realizes that they’re coming back to the harbour being guided in by a pilot and his son ~~~~> a hermit is approaching the ship ~~~~> mariner thinks the hermit and forgive him ~~~~> but before the hermit can approach the ship the boat he’s on sinks
12.but he is saved onto the pilots boat ~~~~> but his ship and crew are gone forever
the pilot throws a fit ~~~~> hermits praying ~~~~> the boy goes crazy and says some stuff about the devil
the mariner tells the wedding guests that he must tell the story over his sea journey over and over and over and over and over . . . because he has to tell people to love creation
love creation! treat it with respect or you may be cursed! is the moral of the story for the sea mariner.
