V6 Alquin Romanticism 12-15 20-27 Byron and Coleridge

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 - 1834
  • Youngest son of a clergyman in Devon
  • Not wealthy, especially after his father died.
  • Bright pupil, studied at Cambridge
  • Addicted to opium (and alcohol and women)
  • Wrote The Lyrical Balads, together with Wordsworth, and thus started the Romantic Period
  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • Turbulent life: discharged from army, opium-addiction, bad health, bad relationship with his wife, financial problems, unable to hold a job.

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
De ballade van de oude zeeman
Ballade: lang, verhalend gedicht

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Passage 1

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Slide 6 - Video

Assignments: Passage 1, page 25
1. How is the elderly sailor described in the fist stanza?
  • He is described as having a long beard and glittering eye. Skinny hand and grey beard.
2. In which line do we learn that the wedding reception is being held close by?
  •  Final line of the second stanza. The jolly revelry of the party is already audible.



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Passage 1, page 25
3a. In which 2 ways does the mariner hold the wedding guest back?
A
with his foot
B
with his eyes
C
with his hand
D
with his shoulder

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Passage 1, page 25
3b. Which is more effective?
A
with his hand
B
with his eyes

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Assignment 3B explained:

3 B. His eyes are highly effective. He uses them to hypnotise the wedding guest. When the ancient mariner tries to apprehend the wedding guest with his hand, the latter becomes angry.


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Assignments: Passage 1, page 25
4.Quote two lines which show that the wedding is hypnotised as it were: 
  • He listens like a three years’ child 
  • He cannot choose but hear

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Pasage 2

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Slide 13 - Video

Assignments: Passage 2, page 25
5.What is the albatros compared with? 
  •  As if it had been a Christian soul  
6. What effect did this have on the crew?
  •  The crew were aware that the albatross was a creature sent by God.
  • We hailed it in God’s name.

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Passage 2, page 25
7. Why did the albatros follow the ship?

A
For food or play
B
To safe it from sinking.
C
Because it was lost and wants to find the mainland.
D
To kill all the sailors.

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Passage 3: no audio

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Assignments: Passage 3, page 25
8 .What word is used remarkably frequently in these six lines?
  • Weary: slopend / vermoeiend. 
Why would Coleridge do so?
  • His frequent repetition lends the word great emphasis.  

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Passage 4

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Assignments: Passage 4, page 25
9. What association does the ancient mariner experience each time a crew member dies?
  • The whish of the crossbow (which killed the albatross!)  

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Passage 4, page 25
10. How often does he experience this?

A
5 times
B
50 times
C
100 times
D
200 times

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Passage 4, page 25
11. Is the death of each crew member accompanied by a sound or in silence?

A
in silence
B
with a groan

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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Passage 5

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Assignments: Passage 5, page 25
12. What happens when the ancient mariner is once again able to pray and can even bless the snakes?
  • The albatross fell from his neck into the sea.

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13. In which respect is this poem associated with the Middle Ages and in which with the 19th century?
As a ballad, this poem has a great affinity with the Middle Ages, while the voyage and all that occurs in the process are more closely related to the Romantic era. 
Furthermore nature naturally lies at the core of romanticism.

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