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Vsuresh Posted 14 years ago
Rime of the ancient mariner
Hi
This is the explanation I have given on a stanza from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Please tell me whether it is apt.
Context: The ancient mariner kills the albatross which eventually believed to have brought them good luck.
As a result the ancient mariner and the crew suffer untold misery.
The misery is brought out in these stanzas:
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
The poet tells that the mariners see the ocean rotting, which he prays to god, should never happen to anyone. As that is happening they unpleasant crawling over the ship and making them more miserable.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.
The situation the mariners were in was so disgusting that they felt everything around was was giving out a foul smell and moving in a unsteady way. Thus the water being under the spell of a black magician, appeared like the oil meant for evil purposes, seemed to burn green blue and white.
This is the explanation I have given on a stanza from the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Please tell me whether it is apt.
Context: The ancient mariner kills the albatross which eventually believed to have brought them good luck.
As a result the ancient mariner and the crew suffer untold misery.
The misery is brought out in these stanzas:
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
The poet tells that the mariners see the ocean rotting, which he prays to god, should never happen to anyone. As that is happening they unpleasant crawling over the ship and making them more miserable.
About, about, in reel and rout
The death-fires danced at night;
The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue, and white.
The situation the mariners were in was so disgusting that they felt everything around was was giving out a foul smell and moving in a unsteady way. Thus the water being under the spell of a black magician, appeared like the oil meant for evil purposes, seemed to burn green blue and white.
Top answer
It sounds more as though the mariners were hallucinating. The ship was becalmed and they had no water.
- It sounds more as though the mariners were hallucinating.
- The ship was becalmed and they had no water.
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It sounds more as though the mariners were hallucinating. The ship was becalmed and they had no water.
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Hello Vsuresh
This poem was first published in 1 7 9 7 !
But that is not the real problem here. The real conundrum is how to interpret Samuel Coleridge's poem. Books and scholarly essays have been written on the subject and every author seems to have a different interpretation. What follows is my personal, subjective, opinion of what was being said at this part of the
This poem was first published in 1 7 9 7 !
But that is not the real problem here. The real conundrum is how to interpret Samuel Coleridge's poem. Books and scholarly essays have been written on the subject and every author seems to have a different interpretation. What follows is my personal, subjective, opinion of what was being said at this part of the
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Stanza 1:
Rot means here to decay or putrefy, like a dead body. The "slimy things" are like maggots. The mariners are visioning their death in a most unnatural way. Sea creatures do not normally have legs, unless they are scavengers living on the bottom. Everything around them reminds them of death. The entire sea is dying, and they with it.
Stanza 2:
The night sky is filled wit
Rot means here to decay or putrefy, like a dead body. The "slimy things" are like maggots. The mariners are visioning their death in a most unnatural way. Sea creatures do not normally have legs, unless they are scavengers living on the bottom. Everything around them reminds them of death. The entire sea is dying, and they with it.
Stanza 2:
The night sky is filled wit
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Hi John
Thier discomfort in this section, due principally to lack of wind and water, pales in compison with what happens to them later.
Should it be 'pales in comparison'?
Thier discomfort in this section, due principally to lack of wind and water, pales in compison with what happens to them later.
Should it be 'pales in comparison'?
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It certainly should, Vsuresh !
I made a spelling error. Sorry about that (but I can almost guarantee that it won't be the last time).
Take care,
John
I made a spelling error. Sorry about that (but I can almost guarantee that it won't be the last time).
Take care,
John
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Dear John
Was the sea not still at this point of time ?
Thank you
Sonu
Was the sea not still at this point of time ?
Thank you
Sonu
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