Explore the ways Coleridge tells his story in Part 3 of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” In Part 3, the poem becomes more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Ancient Mariner and his fellow sailors. Although later in the poem Coleridge reveals that a specific spirit is responsible for their demise, it seems as though the spiritual world as a whole is punishing the men, using the natural world as its weapon: the wind refuses to blow, the ocean churns with dreadful creatures, and the sun's relentless heat chars the men. The ghost ship, however, is separate from the natural world - it sails without wind, and its inhabitants are spirits. Death and Life-in-Death are allegorical figures who become frighteningly real for the sailors, especially the Ancient Mariner, whose soul Life-in-Death "wins", thereby dooming him to a fate worse than death. Even those sailors whose souls go to hell seem freer than the Ancient Mariner; while their souls fly unencumbered out of their bodies, he is destined to be trapped in his indefinitely - a living hell.
It also links to nature, this helps the reader to create a clearer image of the Mariner as for so long has be been at sea with deprived of social norms he has almost become part of nature. Coleridge refers to nature once more but this time it is to emphasise the Mariner’s repent. “A thousand thousand slimy things lived on” shows the Mariner’s hatred towards nature as he is angry that such unsightliness can go on living yet ‘The many men, so beautiful’ were dead, it is also one of many juxtapositions which is Coleridge uses throughout the poem. Although we are convinced that the Mariner is full of guilt and sorrow, the remark towards the ‘slimy things’ could be interpreted that he is almost trying to pass his guilt or blame onto them as it appears as if the Mariner is implying it is selfish of the ‘slimy things’ to live while such beauty has come to such an abrupt end. On a larger theme, the ‘Slimy things’ are used in the poem to represent all that is bad in the world.
Wombing is an unusual verb used by Shakespeare to mean 'enclosing'; it is the final word of the first stanza but leads through enjambment to the 'wild seabirds' in the first line of the second stanza, as if the sea is about to give birth to the birds. In stanza two, which is six lines long, Nichols continues the theme of dreaming about the island as the fisherman set out to sea and the sun rises 'defiantly' (in contrast to London weather, of course). The images are again based in nature, and the colours in these initial stanzas are rich and beautiful: 'blue surf' and 'his small emerald island'. Stanza two ends, however, with the phrase that tells us how the man has to emerge from his dream 'groggily groggily'; these words set to one side to emphasise that the dream has ended and a different setting is being introduced. The repetition of 'groggily' also serves to portray the idea that this is a reluctant, slow awakening.
Get the goddamn sail down!” (pg. 217) Storm tipped over their boat and although Jordan was the better swimmer, he drowned. Conrad blames himself for his death and that is the moment when he encounters his first big instability or problem.
Kin: Relative; Merry: Happy; din’: music. * The mariner holds the wedding guest, now we have a third speaker. He ignores the wedding guest and continues telling a story saying there was a ship. The wedding guest now says [Hold off! Unhand me, grey-beard loon.]
Andrew Jefferson 10/26/10 Period 3 Beowulf essay Opening up with an honorary burial at sea and ending with an equally extravagant funeral bonfire with plenty of killing and gore in between, Beowulf is an epic poem about the Anglo-Saxons and the monsters they encounter. Despite the obvious pagan roots, Beowulf possesses a Christian undertone that is hard to ignore. When Christian missionaries introduced their beliefs to the Anglo-Saxons, it was clear that the two could not coexist; therefore, they must abandon these ancient icons to hold a more straightforward view. Just as the poem’s present-day readers were thrown into an anxious state by analyzing the pull of a pagan past against the new teachings of Christianity, the Christian monk whose task was to blend Christian ideologies in a complex yet effective way was a most daunting task. The poem had to appeal to Anglo-Saxons and his fellow Christians precisely because they were attempting to merge their own beliefs and at times during the poem those beliefs appear to amalgamate.
Surrounding him were “pools of sulphurous yellow light” and a huge “boiling cauldron” filled with tar used by the road-menders. Illustrating the fog by using the word “sulphurous” creates the feeling that it is poisonous to all beings. This gives the reader a sense of foreboding; that some life-threatening will/is going to happen. Using “pools” to describe the amount of fog surrounding Arthur Kipps makes it sound as if there is an unbearable amount of this lethal fog. A pot of tar is described as a “boiling cauldron” which relates to witches and magic; witches, more often than not, use magic to cast curses on others.
An additional connotation that implies Smith is referring to the natives as demons, is the rattle mentioned in the previous quote. Rattles are usually connected to snakes and serpents which are symbols of the devil and evil. This reference is a confirmation that Smith does not think of the Indians as having a soul of a true person but merely demonic
He starts to become afraid of death and leaves out on a journey to find immortality. Gilgamesh finds Urshanabi, a boatman, to take him over the waters of death to Utnapishtim. Utnapishtim and his wife are the only humans the gods made immoral. Gilgamesh is put to the test of staying awake for six days and seven nights, but falls asleep nearly right away. “What shall I do, O Utnapishtim, where shall I go?
During today’s class, we watched the movie Sharknado. Being a completely unrealistic sci-fi movie, I hope I never have to watch something like this again. The movie began on a ship out in the middle of the ocean, battling against harsh waves. There was a feud between the captain and a business man over a sale of one million dollars that resulted unexpectedly with death by a flying shark. This introduction had nothing to do with the plotline other than the flying shark and if I could change anything about this movie and make it my way, I would completely erase the ship-scene; the terrible entrance forewarned me that this would be a long one and a half hours with the already terrible acting and animation.