I will assign students a stanza number.
When your stanza is up,
you will read.
I will pick intermittently pause the reading to ask for a
paraphrase or to pose a question.
We will be finishing the
poem (part VII) today.
You will be given a review
of the most important section of stanzas from the text, stanzas 63-66.
You will have your final
opportunity to make up work with me this week. If there is anything you are
missing, come see me to resolve any potential grading issues before it's too
late!
Learning
Targets:
I can determine two or more
themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course
of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a
complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
I can
analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate
elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is
ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).
I can
determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text,
including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific
word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or
language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
I can
analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a
text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide
a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning
as well as its aesthetic impact.
I can
evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and
rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links among ideas, word choice,
points of emphasis, and tone used.
Elements of Romanticism
Love of Nature:
Romantic thinkers
venerated (REALLY
respected) the natural
world and the environment.
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Idealization of Rural Living: They viewed
rural (country- opposite of urban/city) life as ideal and
perfect.
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Faith in Common People: They respected all people including
peasants (not just the elite or 1%!).
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Emphasis on Freedom and Individualism: Rather than focusing
on groups of people, Romantic thinkers valued individual humans and their
individual rights.
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Spontaneity (Doing things impulsively/in the moment),
Intuition (Gut instinct/Educated Guesses), Feeling
(Emotions), Imagination (Creating things from one's mind),
Wonder (Awe/When one's jaw drops): All of these concepts are associated with
Romanticism.
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Passionate individual religiosity: Individual humans could
worship and demonstrate faith rather than belonging to religious groups or
institutions.
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Life after Death: They believed that human life did not end
in physical death. Heaven existed.
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Organic View of the World: They believed that everything in
this world was connected- similar to Aristotle's Great Chain of Being.
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Major
Themes of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
The
Natural World: The Physical
While
it can be beautiful and frightening (often
simultaneously),
the natural world's power in "The
Rime
of the Ancient Mariner" is unquestionable.
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The
Spiritual World: The Metaphysical
"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" occurs in the
natural,
physical world-the land and ocean.
However,
the work has popularly been interpreted as
an
allegory of man's connection to the spiritual,
metaphysical
world.
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Liminality
"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" typifies the
Romantic
fascination with liminal spaces. A liminal
space
is defined as a place on the edge of a realm or
between
two realms, whether a forest and a field, or
reason and imagination.
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Imprisonment
"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is in many ways a
portrait
of imprisonment and its inherent loneliness
and
torment.
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Retribution
"The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a tale of
retribution,
since the Ancient Mariner spends most of
the
poem paying for his one, impulsive error of
killing
the Albatross.
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1.
The Natural World (It can be beautiful and
frightening and powerful) (often simultaneously),
2.
The Spiritual World: The Metaphysical (The poem
occurs in the natural, physical world-the land and ocean. However, the work has
popularly been interpreted as an allegory of man's connection to the spiritual,
metaphysical world.
3.
Liminality-"The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner" typifies the Romantic fascination with liminal spaces. A liminal
space is defined as a place on the edge of a realm or between two realms,
whether a forest and a field, or reason and imagination.
4.
Imprisonment-"The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner" is in many ways a portrait of imprisonment and its inherent
loneliness and torment.
5.
Retribution-The poem is a tale of retribution,
since the Ancient Mariner spends most of the poem paying for his one, impulsive
error of killing the Albatross.
The
following stanzas, from the end of part IV, are the climax of the
poem.
You will
have a quick write assignment about them Thursday.
There is
no excuse for not being ready to write when the time comes!
63. Beyond the shadow of the ship
I watched the water-snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they reared, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.
64. Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.
65. O happy living things! no
tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my
heart,
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on
me,
And I blessed them unaware.
66. The selfsame moment I could pray;
And from my neck so free
The Albatross fell off, and sank
Like lead into the sea."
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Finishing the text (Part VII)
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Part VII
118. "This Hermit good lives in that wood
Which slopes down to the sea.
How loudly his sweet voice he rears!
He loves to talk with marineers
That come from a far country.
119. He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve -
Where does
the mariner pray? (text)
He hath a cushion plump:
It is the moss that wholly
hides
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The rotted old oak-stump.
120. The skiff-boat neared: I heard them talk,
`Why, this is strange, I trow!
Where are those lights so many and fair,
That signal made but now?'
121. `Strange, by my faith!' the Hermit said
-
`And they answered not our cheer!
The planks looked warped! and see those sails,
How thin they are and sere!
I never saw aught like to them,
Unless perchance it were
121. Brown skeletons of leaves that
lag
To what are the sere sails compared?
My forest-brook along;
When the ivy-tod is heavy with
snow,
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And the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
That eats the she-wolf's young.'
122. `Dear Lord! it hath a fiendish look -
(The Pilot made reply)
I am afeared' -`Push on, push on!'
Said the Hermit cheerily.
123. The boat came closer to the ship,
But I nor spake nor stirred;
The boat came close beneath the ship,
And straight a sound was heard.
124. Under the water it rumbled
on,
What happened to the ship? (text)
Still louder and more dread:
It reached the ship, it split the
bay;
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The ship went down like lead.
125. Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound,
Which sky and ocean smote,
Like one that hath been seven days drowned
My body lay afloat;
But swift as dreams, myself I found
Within the Pilot's boat.
126. Upon the whirl where sank the ship
The boat spun round and round;
And all was still, save that the hill
Was telling of the sound.
127. I moved my lips -the Pilot shrieked
And fell down in a fit;
The holy Hermit raised his eyes,
And prayed where he did sit.
128. I took the oars: the Pilot's boy,
Who now doth crazy
go,
What is the Pilot boys’s perception of the mariner? (text)
Laughed loud and long, and all the while
His eyes went to and fro.
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`Ha! ha!' quoth he, `full plain I see,
The Devil knows how to row.'
129. And now, all in my own country,
I stood on the firm land!
The Hermit stepped forth from the boat,
And scarcely he could stand.
130. O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man!
The Hermit crossed his brow.
`Say quick,' quoth he `I bid thee say -
What manner of man art thou?'
131. Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenched
What was the mariner compelled to do when he saw
With a woeful
agony,
the hermit? (text)
And then it left me
free.
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132. Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns;
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
133. I pass, like night, from land to
land;
What is the mariner’s penance?
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I
see,
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I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I
teach.
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134. What loud uproar bursts from that door!
The wedding-guests are there:
But in the garden-bower the bride
And bride-maids singing are;
And hark the little vesper bell,
Which biddeth me to prayer!
135. O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been
Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.
136. O sweeter than the marriage-feast,
'Tis sweeter far to me,
To walk together to the kirk
With a goodly company! -
137. To walk together to the kirk,
And all together pray,
While each to his great Father bends,
Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
And youths and maidens gay!
138. Farewell, farewell! but this I
tell
According to the mariner, how does one
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
demonstrate
a love for god?
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and
beast.
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139. He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."
140. The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is
hoar,
define hoar _______________________________
Is gone; and now the Wedding-Guest
Turned from the bridegroom's door.
141. He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
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