![]() Meanwhile, the water fills with monstrous, slimy creatures. After that, the ship remains stuck, leaving everybody thirsty and hungry. Instead, the Mariner kills it with his crossbow. All the sailors welcome the majestic bird as a good omen. ![]() Soon enough, an albatross comes flying by, and as he circles around the ship, the ice starts to break. ![]() It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,ĭuring a voyage, the Mariner and his crew are hit by a dreadful storm, that conducts the ship inside a maze of ice. To this day, the interpretations of this ballad are numerous, because of its dense and mysterious symbolism. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner dwells in a rarefied atmosphere but also adopts the solemn tone of a maritime epic, like Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. In many of his literary creations, Coleridge works with fantastic, dream-like worlds, where realistic and supernatural events coexist. ![]() ‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, This is the premise of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the poem that opens Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads (1798). While walking together to a wedding, three young boys meet an old sailor: the man, curved by his age but with a “glittering eye”, stops one of them and tells him his story. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |