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Directions
1. Complete ONE Analysis Guide PER text to the best of your ability (​not​ to the best of
SparkNotes’, Shmoops’, or anyone else’s ability).
2. You will need to conduct outside research to complete certain items such as historical
era/cultural movement and socio-cultural and historical context. ​Cite your sources.
3. If you are unfamiliar with any terms on this guide, refer to the AP Lit. Terms document for
help.
4. I highly recommend typing your answers directly into this form and then printing the form
when finished. This will allow you to take up as much room as necessary without the limits of
handwriting.

The Basics​ (6 points)

Full Title of Work (properly punctuated):
- “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

Year of Publication:
- 1834

Genre:
- Poetry, Adventure, Supernatural

Historical Era / Cultural Movement:

- British Romantic Movement
- https://www.owleyes.org/text/rime-ancient-mariner/analysis/historical-context

Author:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Birth-Death Dates / Places:

- Birth: 21 October 1772 at England (Ottery St Mary town, Devon)
- Death: 25 July 1834 at England (Highgate, London)
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Setting(s)​ (2 points)
*Consider times and places as well as significant socio-cultural and historical context.

Primary:
- The ship

Secondary:
- The wedding place
- Harbour

Other:
- None

Characters​ (5 points)
Protagonists:
- The Ancient Mariner

Antagonists:
- Death
- Life-in-Death

Primary Foils [​to whom?​]:

- None

Primary Love Interests & Sidekicks:

- None

Minor Characters:
- Wedding guests
- Crews
- Pilot
- Pilot’s son
- Hermit

Central Conflicts​ (3 points)

*Consider both sides in each conflict.

Primary External:
- The mariner and the crew
- The crews are annoyed and are not satisfied with the mariner’s choices of action. As a
result, in one of the mariner’s actions, the crew are dehydrated and almost died.

Primary Internal:
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- The mariner
- Since the time he is afflicted with the cures, the ancient mariner needs to keep
struggling, telling the story to stay alive.

Secondary:
- The guest to Ancient mariner
- The guest tries to hit himself in the chest to escape from the mariner’s storytelling.

Key Plot Points​ (5 points)

Exposition:
- The mariner’s ship set sail towards the equator with his crew.

Rising Action:
- The crew got blown away by a storm. They landed somewhere full of ice.
- The crew met Albatross, which brought the south wind and helped the ship to get out from the
icy place. The other crew grew closer to albatross but the mariner shot it, causing hates from
other crews. But after the mariner shot the bird, the mist goes away and good south wind
blows. The crew praises the mariner.
- The ship arrived at a part of the ocean where everything is silent and no wind blows. Later,
everyone became dehydrated since there were no fresh water.
Climax:
- Soon, a ghostly ship arrived and “Death” and “Life-in-Death” arrived. After playing games,
the crews were taken their souls and the mariner was cursed.

Falling Action:
- The mariner saw a sea serpent and blessed it. Soon, he was helped by gods and could travel
back to the harbour.
- He met a pilot and his son and a hermit. The ship that the mariner travel with sunk, and he
was helped by those three. The hermit asked about his story, so he told it to the hermit and
realized he was cursed to keep telling the story.

Resolution:
- Three of wedding guests are walking into the ceremony. One of them is interrupted by the
mariner and is forced to listen to the story through some kind of magic.
- After the story was told, he head back home and sleep, becoming “a sadder and a wiser”
person.

Narrative Style​ (3 points)

*Consider point of view, distinctive literary style / literary devices used, and narrator’s name /
character traits.
- The story is basically the story told to a wedding guest by the ancient mariner. The story is
narrated in a third person view (things are described by the author) and also narrated by the
mariner’s point of view during the story.
- The word choices that the author used are old words that could rarely be seen nowadays.
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Themes​ (2 points)
​ eminder: themes are usually 3-5-word phrases, not full sentences or 1-word answers.
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Primary:
- The anger of nature

Secondary:
- Curses from the God

Symbols, Metaphors, and Allegories​ (3 points)

- In my opinion, this is a message about appreciating nature and also about not destroying
nature. From the mariner’s action, he receives punishment from killing the Albatross bird and
receives helps from appreciating the sea serpent.

Mythological, Biblical, Literary, Historical, Scientific, and Cultural Allusions: Other Significant
Literary Devices / Notable Aspects​ (3 points)
- In this poem, there are parts of it that mentions about something related to religion and its
beliefs, such as Virgin Mary, Death and Life-in-Death, and god.
- In the part where the ship travels faster, the author mentions about the air that was cut in the
front of the ship, making the ship travel faster.

Significant Quotes​ (10 points)

*Include ​at least 5​ that span the beginning, middle, and end of the text. Focus your choice of quotes
on ​characterization​. This will help you when writing your first essay!

- Who? To Whom? Page # or Line

- Said What? (​exact​ words and punctuation in “ ”) #
- Why?

- The mariner to the wedding guest Part 1, Stanza 3,

- “There was a ship,” Line 2
- The mariner really wants to tell his story so the curse won’t trigger the
painful effect on him. He, without hesitate, tells the story right away.

- The mariner to the crew Part 3, Stanza 5,

- “I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, Line 4-5
And cried, A sail! a sail!”
- He was so happy to see a ship sailing towards them that he needed to
drink his own blood to be able to shout.

- The mariner to the wedding guest (telling his tales) Part 3, Stanza
- “Her lips were red, her looks were free, 12, Line 1-4
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Her locks were yellow as gold:

Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,”
- The mariner was describing the appearance of “Life-in-Death” that she
is a woman.

- The mariner to the wedding guest (telling his tales) Part 4, Stanza
- “O happy living things! no tongue 14, Line 1-4
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware: ”
- He was excited to see the serpent and blessed it without knowing

- The mariner to the wedding guest (telling his tales) Part 6, Stanza
- “And till my ghastly tale is told, 16, Line 3-4
This heart within me burns.”
- The mariner now notices that unless he tells his story, the curse won’t
act up on him.