The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a landmark English Romantic narrative poem that tells the haunting tale of a sailor cursed after killing an albatross, exploring themes of guilt, redemption, and humanity’s relationship with nature.

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instanceOf English poem
Romantic poem
literary work
narrative poem
adaptedAs musical compositions
radio dramas
stage works
visual art
author Samuel Taylor Coleridge
canonicalStatus landmark of English Romantic poetry
containsCharacter Death
Life-in-Death
ship’s crew
wedding guest
coPublicationWith William Wordsworth
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
famousLine He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small
Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink
firstPublicationYear 1798
firstPublishedIn Lyrical Ballads
form ballad
frameNarrator wedding guest
genre narrative poetry
hasGlossesBy Samuel Taylor Coleridge
influenced Victorian literature
modernist writers
keyEvent killing of the albatross
keySymbol albatross
language English
laterVersionPublishedIn Sibylline books
surface form: Sibylline Leaves
laterVersionYear 1817
literaryMovement Romanticism
surface form: English Romanticism
literaryPeriod Romanticism
mainCharacter The Rime of the Ancient Mariner self-linksurface differs
surface form: ancient mariner
meter ballad meter
moral He prayeth best, who loveth best all things both great and small
narrativePerspective first person frame narrative
setting sea voyage
wedding feast
structure seven parts
studiedIn English literature curricula
theme fate and chance
guilt
humanity’s relationship with nature
isolation
redemption
respect for all living things
sin and punishment
suffering
the supernatural

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge notableWork The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Lyrical Ballads containsPoem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner mainCharacter The Rime of the Ancient Mariner self-linksurface differs
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Christabel relatedWorkByAuthor The Rime of the Ancient Mariner