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the killing of the albatross part 2
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THE KILLING OF THE ALBATROSS
"...The ship driven by a storm toward the south pole"
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Summary of the first part
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SUMMARY, check your attention skills
While walking along a street an old seaman stops one of the three guests going to a wedding feast, to listen to his story. The Mariner's tale is about a sea voyage shook up by a mysterious storm.
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the ship driven by a storm toward the south pole.
And now the storm-blast came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong:
He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
And chased us south along.
With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
And southward aye we fled.
And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
The land of ice, and of fearful sounds where no living thing was to be seen.
And through the drifts the snowy clifts
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
The ice was all between.
The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!
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Key:
- Personification
- Simile
- Anaphora
Till a great sea-bird, called the Albatross came through the snow-fog, and was received with great joy and hospitality.
At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;
As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hailed it in God's name.
It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through!
And lo! the Albatross proveth a bird of good omen, and followeth the ship as it returned northward through fog and floating ice.
And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariner's hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.'
The ancient Mariner inhospitality killeth the pious bird of good man
'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross.
Main themes:
- The Natural and the Spritual
- The Sin
- The Sublime
- Storytelling
THEMES AND LITERARY DEVICES
Style, structure and characters:
- Ballads' features: four-line stanza, combination of dialogue and narration, archaic language
- The Albatross: benign or evil?
- The anciant Mariner