Week 37 Lesson 3 Coleridge

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This lesson contains 10 slides, with interactive quiz, text slides and 1 video.

time-iconLesson duration is: 45 min

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Goals
I understand the plot of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner


I know the basic information about Samual Coleridge's background

Today you need: your laptop, JDW map and a pen. 

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
(1772 – 1834)

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
- Lyrical poet, critic & philosopher
- youngest son of a vicar 
- 1798: The Lyrical Ballads with Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads set a new style by using everyday language and presenting an original way of looking at nature.)
-got paid 150 pounds a year to pursue literary carreer, studied pilosophy and became interested in Emmanuel Kant, learned German as well. 
- became addicted to opium became addicted to opium
- After 1817: theological and politico-sociological works

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-  form of the popular ballad/narrative poem
-  four-line stanza (although the poem also contains stanzas of six or even nine lines). 
- The metre is loose: odd lines are generally tetrametre, while even lines are generally trimetre. 
- The rhymes generally alternate in an ABAB or ABABAB scheme, though again there are many exceptions.  

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while reading/listening
Which aspects of the Romantic period can you recognize in this work?

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Features
- emotional and imaginative
- intuition
- nature (as mysterious force, god-like or supplement for religion)
- exploration of human nature and native past
- exploration of importance of self-expression
- concern for outcasts of society
- focus on individuals/common man
- use of symbolism
- art as expression
- supernatural elements

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Which Romantic elements have you found in this poem? Mention at least 2.

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Homework questions 

1. What’s the moral of the story? 
2. Which part of the mariner’s story marks the turning-point in his suffering?

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