A critical analysis of the poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ” by S.T. Coleridge’s and a study of the weight and moral power prose.
This paper examines in-depth the lyric poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It describes the passion and imagination of the author, and how the theme of the poem has two centers of disturbance: The polar spirit and life-in-death. The author states that the poem’s backwardness is the transfer of guilt of watching the death of two hundred shipmates. The paper includes in- depth analysis of the poem both from the author and from many literary critics throughout history. It also has a detailed study of the symbolism and imagery used in the poem. The paper includes numerous color illustrations of the poem.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). It was first published in Lyrical Ballads, with a few other poems in 1798. The Lyrical Ballads were written and published jointly by Coleridge and his good friend William Wordsworth by whom most of the poems were written. The first version of the poem was entitled The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, and much of the spelling was very archaic even at that time. In 1800 the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads appeared, with another volume of poems to accompany the first. Coleridge, at Wordsworth’s suggestion, had modernized much of the spelling and the title appeared in the form at the head of this page.”