samuel coleridge the rime of the ancient mariner

It could be a traveler, a knight, a cowboy, a prince, or a princess seeking something. The Wanderer is the name given to a character of someone on a journey in art and mythology. Thesis: The poem is about the wanderings of the ancient mariner who is permanently traumatized and alienated by his killing of the albatross and his experiences lead him to the spiritual realization that all creatures must be loved. I agree that “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” deals with the modern myth of the compulsive wanderer traumatized and alienated by a shattering experience, but not permanently. The ancient Mariner tells a story that relates itself clearly to a major Romantic archetype, the Wanderer.

Thus, the poem has a moral that all things must be loved. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner’s life alone is spared and he repents, but he must wander the earth and tell his tale with the lesson that “all things great and small” are important. They are punished with drought and death. The central theme of this poem is the suffering incurred by the mariner and his crew for killing an albatross. 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.The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a wild and imaginative tale, which in the words of Sir Walter Scott, ‘displays so much beauty with many eccentricities’” (Moore, 685).

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