Week 37 Lesson 3 Coleridge

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

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. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

(1772 – 1834)

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

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.  

while reading/listening

Which aspects of the Romantic period can you recognize in this work?

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

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

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?