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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 

Comprehension questions:

1. What “hellish thing” had the mariner done? How did the other crew members react to the mariner’s deed? What made them change their reaction?

2. What happened to the ship then? Where did the sailors get? What did they do to the mariner? What were the destinies of the mariner and the other members of the crew? What did they do to deserve this situation?

3. In what way did the mariner react to the animals he saw in the sea?

4. Describe the way the mariner was punished. Why could not the mariner pray?

5. Whom /what did the mariner see approaching his ship?

6. In what way did the change of the mariner’s attitude to the inhabitants of the sea change his fate? What event became the symbol of the fact that he was forgiven?

7. In what way did the mariner get to the land? What happened to the ship and to the crew then?

8. Whose voices did the mariner hear? What are these voices discussing?

9. What punishment was imposed upon the mariner?

Vocabulary Practice:

  1. Explain in English the meaning of the following words: loon, bassoon, prow, to ken, hollo, shroud, furrow, fathom, Agape, gossamer, hulk, rim, bark, steerman, oar;
  2. Find in the text, translate within the context and learn the following words: din, sheen, to hail, to perch , to aver, to slay, to parch, to plunge, drough, to fleck, to dip, At one stride, to reek, hoary, sultry, wan, crag, to be wont to do smth, to discern, penance, blast, to abate, to impart, hermit, to warp,
  3. Find 5 synonyms and 2 antonyms to the following words: glittering, a speck, dumb, ghastly, lank, attire, dank.
  4. Find the meaning of some archaic words used in the text: eftsoons, swound, wist, Gramercy, Betwixt, clomb, abide, main, ere, bideth, shrieve, trow,
  5. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more!
    Hither to work us weal;
    Without a breeze, without a tide,
    She steadies with upright keel!

Translate paying attention to the meaning of the pronoun “She”: who or what does it refer to? Comment on this situation from the grammatical point of view and think of other examples of the same kind

 

Translation tasks:

1.… It perched for vespers nine. 2. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; 3. And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. 4. As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged and tacked and veered. 5. We listened and looked sideways up, 6. And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand. 7. Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, A river steep and wide. 8. It raised my hair, it fanned my cheek Like a meadow-gale of spring - It mingled strangely with my fears, Yet it felt like a welcoming.

 

Stylistic analysis:

1. Coleridge wrote his The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the form of a ballad. What can you say about the conventions of this genre? Which of them did the author follow and which not? Why was this form chosen for the poem?



2. Find words and expressions used to describe the ancient mariner. What effect is achieved due to such a choice of words?

3. Find in the text the sentences where the sun, the moon and the sea are mentioned. What is unusual in the way they are described? Why are the described so?

4. Find religious references in the text. Why are they there?

5. Identify the supernatural elements in the text. What stylistic devises are used in their creation?

6. How would you define the atmosphere created in the poem? What elements contribute to the creation of this atmosphere?

7. What are the main symbols of the poem?


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