Name: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
ISBN: 9780099444992

Mervyn Peake

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Coleridge’s own commentary on the fateful story of the bright-eyed ancient mariner, written some years later at a time of renewed religious feeling, is printed alongside the poem.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The rime of the ancient mariner

Thought the contexts for each poem were important.

Susan

A sailor recounts the terrible fate that befell his ship when he shot down an albatross.

Nicole Sonja

Mirjana Prodan

Urbán Zsófia

Örülök, hogy az eredetit is elolvastam. Nem szokásom angolul verseket olvasni, de tetszett. Sokkal jobb, mint a magyar fordítás, itt nincsenek olyan szövegek, hogy XY megy/jön stb.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridg Part 1 Intent on relating his tale, an old sailor stops a young man on his way to a wedding. The Mariner tells of an ocean voyage with a sailing crew. Once the ship gets blown off course, it ends up at the South Pole, trapped in ice. When an Albatross passes, its presence seems to break the ice surrounding the ship. The crew sails away with the Albatross following. The Mariner then shoots the Albatross for no reason. Part 2 Believing the bird had brought favorable winds, the crew becomes angry. Then crew members are glad that the Mariner shot the Albatross because they believe the bird brought a thick fog. The ships sails into strange waters and then the wind ceases. Suffering from terrible thirst that drives them mad, the men hang the dead Albatross around the Mariner's neck. Part 3 The Mariner spies a strange ghostly ship, piloted by Death and Life-in-Death. The two figures roll dice to see who will take the Mariner's soul, and Life-in-Death wins the game. Death takes the lives of the crew, leaving the Mariner the only live person on the ship. Part 4 The Mariner has no food or water, but still he lives. He watches sea serpents swim in the water, blessing their presence. When the Albatross breaks free from the Mariner's neck, he is suddenly able to pray again. Part 5 The Mariner sleeps and wakes to find rain that he can drink. As a storm approaches, the ship sails on, seemingly without any wind to propel it. Their bodies taken over by angels, the dead crew members help sail the ship. Suddenly the ship is tossed about and the Mariner falls into a swoon where he hears two voices talking about him and the penance he must do. Part 6 When the Mariner wakes, night has fallen. The crew members continue to sail the ship until it appears in the Mariner's home harbor. Then the spirits inhabiting the bodies leave, and the crew members collapse, truly dead. A Pilot, his son, and a Hermit approach the ship. Part 7 The ship sinks, but the Mariner is hauled aboard the Pilot's boat. They are all shocked when he speaks, thinking him dead. When they return to land, the Mariner tells the Hermit his tale. When he is finished, he feels better. The Mariner tells the Wedding Guest that the need to tell his tale grows inside of him and then he must find someone to tell it to or the pain becomes unbearable. His tale told, the Mariner leaves the Wedding Guest, who goes home and ponders what the Mariner told him.

Annotated

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Mitch

Alejandra 

Vanda

Andrew John Kinney

Hunt Emerson

'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is the great narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge rendered into comic strip form by Hunt Emerson. The book includes the complete original poem with Coleridge's notes, humour added by Hunt Emerson, and an introduction by Gilbert Shelton. Now in its sixth edition.