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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797–98 and was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads. Modern editions use a later revised version printed in 1817 that featured a gloss. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signa...more
Paperback, 77 pages
Published
June 1st 1970
by Dover Publications
(first published 1798)
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Mar 28, 2013
Kyle
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Poetry fans, Seafaring fans.
Shelves:
classics-in-2013,
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To be honest, I bought this only because this edition is illustrated by Mervyn Peake, and I wanted to read the work to which he matched his amazing illustrations.
Little did I expect to experience such a wonderful poetry story. I am, admittedly, a bit of an unreliable poetry reader. I don't often like (let alone, love) poetry, but when I do I tend to really like it.
No doubt, someone more knowledgeable or better-*cough*-versed in poetry can probably figure out why I like the poetry/poets I do (Li...more
Little did I expect to experience such a wonderful poetry story. I am, admittedly, a bit of an unreliable poetry reader. I don't often like (let alone, love) poetry, but when I do I tend to really like it.
No doubt, someone more knowledgeable or better-*cough*-versed in poetry can probably figure out why I like the poetry/poets I do (Li...more
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Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
When I did construction work this is what I always wrote on the inside of the Port-a-Potties, amongst all the other graffiti and anatomically imaginative drawings of women.
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was white as leprosy,
The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold.
When I did construction work this is what I always wrote on the inside of the Port-a-Potties, amongst all the other graffiti and anatomically imaginative drawings of women.
May 03, 2013
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5 of 5 stars
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fantasy,
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"Like a painted ship
On a painted ocean"
"Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all."
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:') Loved the poem so much!!! S.T. Coleridge, you stoppeth me from my misery about something =) It was my rime I loved the metaphors in it and...beautiful!! Just like "Water, water...more
On a painted ocean"
"Farewell, farewell! but this I tell
To thee, thou Wedding-Guest!
He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us
He made and loveth all."
(view spoiler)
:') Loved the poem so much!!! S.T. Coleridge, you stoppeth me from my misery about something =) It was my rime I loved the metaphors in it and...beautiful!! Just like "Water, water...more
Yeah, it's good.
La poesia di Coleridge è incredibile, tralasciando per un momento quello che dice o non dice. Si tratta del modo in cui si esprime, la sua lirica. Del tipo che se mi parli anche solo di quello che hai mangiato ieri sera, io sono felice.
Naturalmente anche il contenuto vale, ci mancherebbe. Sono tanto belli i libri che ineggiano al valore della vita, almeno, questo è il significato che Coleridge ha dichiarato nella ballata.
Sono sicurissima che ha omesso interpretazioni secondarie...more
La poesia di Coleridge è incredibile, tralasciando per un momento quello che dice o non dice. Si tratta del modo in cui si esprime, la sua lirica. Del tipo che se mi parli anche solo di quello che hai mangiato ieri sera, io sono felice.
Naturalmente anche il contenuto vale, ci mancherebbe. Sono tanto belli i libri che ineggiano al valore della vita, almeno, questo è il significato che Coleridge ha dichiarato nella ballata.
Sono sicurissima che ha omesso interpretazioni secondarie...more
Poetry. The Ancient Mariner, driven by guilt, compelled to stop one lucky person at unpredictable intervals and rhyme their ear off with his horrible tale.
I remember having to read this in high school and being surprised at just how readable it was. Sure some of the words were odd, and even now half of the weird ones aren't in my Sony's modern dictionary, but the rhythm was captivating and the story memorable.
I'm revisiting it now because it ties in nicely with my arctic reading. There's evidenc...more
I remember having to read this in high school and being surprised at just how readable it was. Sure some of the words were odd, and even now half of the weird ones aren't in my Sony's modern dictionary, but the rhythm was captivating and the story memorable.
I'm revisiting it now because it ties in nicely with my arctic reading. There's evidenc...more
I know 'serious' students of poetry will mock this, but I really think this is a superlative poem and will even say that I believe Coleridge to be a superior poet to Wordsworth. The ballad meter is delightful, and how can one not be won over by things like: "I fear thee, ancient mariner/ I fear thy skinny hand/ For thou art long and lank and brown/ As is the ribbed sea sand." Ew, I mean, can't you just imagine what this guy looks like?
Or how about this?
"The very deep did rot : O Christ !
That eve...more
Or how about this?
"The very deep did rot : O Christ !
That eve...more
I've loved this poem since college. I re-read it again today and it still amazes me. Perhaps in a different light now. So many of the lines just stick with you and as apt as they are for the poem, can be interpreted to apply to so many facets of life.
- "Water, Water Everywhere / And all the boards did shrink / Water, Water Everywhere / Nor any Drop To Drink" ... I can't help but think of global warming when I read this. We have everything on our planet but the resources are shrinking and soon we...more
- "Water, Water Everywhere / And all the boards did shrink / Water, Water Everywhere / Nor any Drop To Drink" ... I can't help but think of global warming when I read this. We have everything on our planet but the resources are shrinking and soon we...more
Nov 17, 2012
Manny
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Everyone
Shelves:
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If all poetry books were like this, I would never read any prose.
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I was thinking about the Ancient Mariner just now, apropos Kris's review of Ice, and recalled an incident from a project I was once involved in. The person in charge failed to renew the contract of a difficult but talented software engineer, after which we had a lot of problems. This prompted the following verse:
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I was thinking about the Ancient Mariner just now, apropos Kris's review of Ice, and recalled an incident from a project I was once involved in. The person in charge failed to renew the contract of a difficult but talented software engineer, after which we had a lot of problems. This prompted the following verse:
For he had done a hellish thing...more
And it would work them woe
For all averred, he
I read this poem in my late British Lit class. I love the metaphor of the albatross as Christ, which the mariner kills with a "cross"bow. Brilliant. Also, the saying "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink" comes from this poem. One of the most interesting things about it is that Samuel Coleridge had an Opium addiction, which he was continually trying to overcome. The themes of change, redemption and forgiveness are central to this piece, which are themes that Coleridge dealt with in h...more
The publishing of Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems in 1798 is usually regarded as the birth certificate of the Romantic movement in English litterae.
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, deliberately breaking away from the common taste of the age, had underlined in the opening Advertisement the "experimental" and innovative character of their compositions. It had been their program to write poetry in the lower and middle registers, with a particular focus on "painting manners a...more
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, deliberately breaking away from the common taste of the age, had underlined in the opening Advertisement the "experimental" and innovative character of their compositions. It had been their program to write poetry in the lower and middle registers, with a particular focus on "painting manners a...more
Nell'era di gutenberg.org la ragione per cui ho preso in prestito quest'edizione �� duplice: il piacere di rileggere l'originale e la curiosit�� di consultare la traduzione.
E sono rimasto deluso: sebbene Ceni sia poeta in proprio, e dovrebbe quindi essere lecito supporre una sua familiarit�� profonda quantomeno con la ligua d'arrivo, il risultato secondo me lascia a desiderare. Perde (inevitabilmente) la musicalit�� e il ritmo dell'originale senza conseguirne una propria, scadendo anzi a tratti...more
E sono rimasto deluso: sebbene Ceni sia poeta in proprio, e dovrebbe quindi essere lecito supporre una sua familiarit�� profonda quantomeno con la ligua d'arrivo, il risultato secondo me lascia a desiderare. Perde (inevitabilmente) la musicalit�� e il ritmo dell'originale senza conseguirne una propria, scadendo anzi a tratti...more
With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
We could not laugh nor wail;
Through utter drought all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
And cried, A sail! a sail!
I love poems that rhyme. (Or is that rime?) Even better when they have protagonists drink their own blood so they can talk.
This 200-year-old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge has a simple plot whose moral seems to be don't kill things (I could be missing some metaphors), but it is told in such an eerie fashion, with relentless c...more
We could not laugh nor wail;
Through utter drought all dumb we stood!
I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
And cried, A sail! a sail!
I love poems that rhyme. (Or is that rime?) Even better when they have protagonists drink their own blood so they can talk.
This 200-year-old poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge has a simple plot whose moral seems to be don't kill things (I could be missing some metaphors), but it is told in such an eerie fashion, with relentless c...more
As far as I'm concerned, Dean Motter is an apt choice for this issue of Classics Illustrated, because my feelings for him are as similarly mixed as those for Coleridge's classic poem. While I think both have their moments, and occasionally offer memorable titbits, overall they don't give me anything lasting but an enduring suspicion of possible potential. I'm not a big poetry fan to begin with, but I do enjoy poetry that tells a story, and Rime... tells a spooky(ish) story, so all the better. Bu...more
"Hey, where were you last night?"
"Huh?"
"It was the wedding last night. Remember? Hello, you were supposed to be the best man! The bride was really upset when you didn't show up! Everybody kept asking me, 'Where is he, where is he?' And I was like, 'I don't know!' I was kind of getting worried about you, dude."
"Oh. Sorry."
"So why didn't you come? You sick or something?"
"No, not sick, exactly."
"So you just blew us off?"
"Well–I got distracted, I guess. It was the weirdest thing. I mean, I was on my...more
"Huh?"
"It was the wedding last night. Remember? Hello, you were supposed to be the best man! The bride was really upset when you didn't show up! Everybody kept asking me, 'Where is he, where is he?' And I was like, 'I don't know!' I was kind of getting worried about you, dude."
"Oh. Sorry."
"So why didn't you come? You sick or something?"
"No, not sick, exactly."
"So you just blew us off?"
"Well–I got distracted, I guess. It was the weirdest thing. I mean, I was on my...more
2.5 - 3 stars
Narrated by Richard Burton, John Neville, and Ralph Richardson
I have a confession to make. When audiobooks come with music, particularly music I like, I am more apt to purchase it. So was the case with this version of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". I had been persuaded into purchasing it after listening to the sample and liking the music. I had never read this poem before so I didn't know what it was about. With the music, the sound effects, and the "stoppeth" and "mayst", it wa...more
Narrated by Richard Burton, John Neville, and Ralph Richardson
I have a confession to make. When audiobooks come with music, particularly music I like, I am more apt to purchase it. So was the case with this version of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". I had been persuaded into purchasing it after listening to the sample and liking the music. I had never read this poem before so I didn't know what it was about. With the music, the sound effects, and the "stoppeth" and "mayst", it wa...more
Coleridge's dark, mysterious look at some of mankind's misdeeds and the all too often disregard for life, come to life in this 'epic' style poem. The language and movement of the poetry is nothing short of musical and airy. It's truly beautiful to read as its rhythm almost seems to undulate with the seas.
The main character is an old mariner who lives to re-tell his horrible story. He stops two men on their way to a celebration, and the mesmerizing, yet scary appearance of the old man give the y...more
The main character is an old mariner who lives to re-tell his horrible story. He stops two men on their way to a celebration, and the mesmerizing, yet scary appearance of the old man give the y...more
I like Coleridge because I'd like to be him, though I have a bit of trouble identifying with some of his characteristics: he was a born poet; Martin Amis has an idea that congenital poets have a certain look - heavy lips, I think, tall, floppy blonde hair: as a teenager, I read and reread the Martin Gardner intro to this book for its evocation of a time when, if you were an honoured writer, people like Josiah Wedgwood would fund your walking trips around the Lake District, or support you financi...more
Dec 06, 2012
Vale
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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La ballata del vecchio marinaio è un poemetto composto da sette parti in cui, il protagonista, un vecchio marinaio narra la sua avventura per mare. E' una ballata che assomiglia molto a quelle medievali, ma se ne discosta per i temi, assolutamenti simbolici e il linguaggio: semplice e diretto.
La sensazione che si ha, dall'inizio alla fine della lettura, è di imbarcarsi davvero in un viaggio: epico, avventuroso e incerto. Le immagini sono vivide: schiaffi di vento, corpi stremati, barbagli di lu...more
La sensazione che si ha, dall'inizio alla fine della lettura, è di imbarcarsi davvero in un viaggio: epico, avventuroso e incerto. Le immagini sono vivide: schiaffi di vento, corpi stremati, barbagli di lu...more
"Water, water, every where
Nor any drop to drink."
One of a few well-known lines from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem I read and re-read in high school and college but have just happened upon again twenty years later and well into mid-life.
The poem uses the fantastical tale of a Mariner's harrowing adventure at sea to describe a spiritual journey from sin to redemption. The allusions to Christianity are hardly subtle, the infamous Albatross described as having appeared through a de...more
Nor any drop to drink."
One of a few well-known lines from Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a poem I read and re-read in high school and college but have just happened upon again twenty years later and well into mid-life.
The poem uses the fantastical tale of a Mariner's harrowing adventure at sea to describe a spiritual journey from sin to redemption. The allusions to Christianity are hardly subtle, the infamous Albatross described as having appeared through a de...more
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I read this as an introduction to Frakenstein - I had trouble getting into the story, but eventually let go of reality and immersed myself in Coleridge's phenomenal writing.
"Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink."
My peers joked that Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner while under an opium-induced haze. I think the drug may have affected his perspective when crafting this, but I doubt he wrote the entire poem under the inf...more
"Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere
Nor any drop to drink."
My peers joked that Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner while under an opium-induced haze. I think the drug may have affected his perspective when crafting this, but I doubt he wrote the entire poem under the inf...more
Sep 29, 2009
Anoud
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review of another edition
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The rime of ancient mariner is literally a masterpiece. It’s a very famous Romantic ballad (it can be considered as Pastoral as well) written by Coleridge, and it's believed it contributed a lot to the English literature. The plot of this ballad goes as the following; an ancient mariner stops a man who's sitting in-or hitting to- a wedding feast, and forces him to listen to his story. The ancient mariner had been in a very deadly journey. He suffered a lot and saw what a deathlike life is, thus...more
I actually rediscovered this poem through my reading of Neil Gaiman's "The Sandman", where Coleridge is one of the poets mentioned in one of the episodes; another poet who gets a lot of mention in Gaiman's comics universe is John Milton. I've been reading Milton's "Paradise Lost" sporadically over the last few months. All of this turned me on to "Mariner".
I read it in one sitting, but to thoroughly appreciate it I think I would have to read it again at a later time. The edition that I first read...more
I read it in one sitting, but to thoroughly appreciate it I think I would have to read it again at a later time. The edition that I first read...more
Poetry. Starts with an introduction and brief biography of Coleridge (Coleridge and Wordsworth were BFFs for a while!), then the 1834 version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner—from the last edition of Coleridge's Poetical works that was published in his lifetime—is presented with the gloss that Coleridge originally added to the 1817 printing. Got that? It seems Coleridge was constantly fiddling with the poem since its first anonymous printing in 1798, adding and deleting stanzas, and changing w...more
Hell yes. Hell. Fucking. Yes. This book has everything. Gambling? Absolutely. Zombies? Of course! Allegories? You betcha! Symbols? So many! Cursed sailors? The original!
The poetry of the story is mostly unobtrusive, so I can't say that it's the most beautiful thing you'll ever read, but it tells a great story and it tells it incredibly well.
I don't know just what I really find so appealing about it. Is it the way-worn, soaked-by-the-sea atmosphere of the whole thing? Or perhaps the classical str...more
The poetry of the story is mostly unobtrusive, so I can't say that it's the most beautiful thing you'll ever read, but it tells a great story and it tells it incredibly well.
I don't know just what I really find so appealing about it. Is it the way-worn, soaked-by-the-sea atmosphere of the whole thing? Or perhaps the classical str...more
This simply affirms my love for Coleridge. I really have to say that I think he's my favorite poet. (I am not good at picking a favorite for anything, but I think I can in this case.)
My favorite poem is still To Nature:
To Nature
It may indeed be phantasy, when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be ; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this beli...more
My favorite poem is still To Nature:
To Nature
It may indeed be phantasy, when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be ; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this beli...more
I was being a prat when I read this during my senior year of high school. I remember the basis of the poem, and I remember that it was a pretty awesome basis. I am going to read it again and give a better review. I also remember a lot of albatross, which is evidently the only symbol that teachers feel the need to drill into students heads when reading this poem.
It appeared that The Mariner in Grim Tuesday was based on the Ancient Mariner in this epic poem. And as luck would have it, I received an anthology of poetry as a gift from my husband, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was included.
It's an interesting poem. I did a little background reading on the internet, because my Anthology didn't include a gloss of the poem.
What I thought was most interesting was the the Albatross was tied to The Ancient Mariner's neck until it fell off as a punishment f...more
It's an interesting poem. I did a little background reading on the internet, because my Anthology didn't include a gloss of the poem.
What I thought was most interesting was the the Albatross was tied to The Ancient Mariner's neck until it fell off as a punishment f...more
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
That is the the line (or are the lines) that stick in my mind.
I read this poem years ago elementary school (the late 60s). I was already developing a taste for fantasy literature. Where I lived at the time books in general were a little hard to come by, the school library was about my only source and this was a small rural school. I had searched out Arthurian fiction, looked up all manner of...more
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
That is the the line (or are the lines) that stick in my mind.
I read this poem years ago elementary school (the late 60s). I was already developing a taste for fantasy literature. Where I lived at the time books in general were a little hard to come by, the school library was about my only source and this was a small rural school. I had searched out Arthurian fiction, looked up all manner of...more
From the free ebook, 'Complete poetry works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge' (downloaded from Project Gutenberg), "Rime" is the only one I've read so far.
It's actually quite interesting how I arrived here. Several years ago, on a TV channel I can't for the life of me remember now, I saw, believe it or not, a cartoon that was made to illustrate "Rime" as accurately as possible. I was fascinated with it then.
And more recently, I came across Coleridge because the father in the movie "Sanctum" (fabulous...more
It's actually quite interesting how I arrived here. Several years ago, on a TV channel I can't for the life of me remember now, I saw, believe it or not, a cartoon that was made to illustrate "Rime" as accurately as possible. I was fascinated with it then.
And more recently, I came across Coleridge because the father in the movie "Sanctum" (fabulous...more
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria.
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“Water, water, everywhere
And all the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.”
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And all the boards did shrink
Water, water everywhere
Nor any drop to drink.”
“Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
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We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.”
