the Rime of the ancient mariner

Background Info

• 1774-1834
• poet of imagniation-romantic
• 1834

Basic Story

Interpretations

• motifs/symbols
• puzzled scholars

Form

• meter
• rhyme scheme

elements of Romanticism

• symbols and images from nature
• prayer

connection to Frankenstein

• page 36

Bibliography

• http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section1.rhtml
• http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/coleridge/section2.rhtml
• SparkNotes Editors. “SparkNote on Coleridge’s Poetry.” SparkNotes.com. SparkNotes LLC. 2002. Web. 30 Apr. 2014.