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Unit 3: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge

3.5 Keywords Notes

Couplet: A couplet can be defined as a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It normally includes two
lines that rhyme and have the same meter.

Critic: A critic is a person who judges the merits of literary or artistic works, especially one who
does so professionally. A person who expresses an unfavourable opinion of something is also
called a critic.
Discomfort: Something that causes one to feel uncomfortable.
Epigraph: An epigraph is a short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book or chapter,
intended to suggest its theme.
Hermit: A hermit is someone, often very religious, who lives his or her life in solitude. Trimeter
Mariner: A mariner is a person who navigates or assists in navigating a ship.
Tetrameter: In poetry, a tetrameter can be defined as "four measures." Verse written in tetrameter
has four measures which are also called feet.
Theologian: A person who engages or is an expert in theology is called so.

3.6 Review Questions

1. Why is this poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”?
2. What is the “crime” committed by the Mariner in part 1?
3. Throw light on Samuel Taylor Coleridge major works.

4. Throw light on Samuel Taylor Coleridge life.
5. What saves the Ancient Mariner? How does he react to the natural world?
6. What appeals to you in the poem?

7. Talk about Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later years and death.
8. Why did the Mariner shoot the albatross?
9. Describe one supernatural element in the story.
10. Who does the Mariner ask for forgiveness and why?
11. What happens to the Mariner after his ship sinks?

12. Why was the Ancient Mariner made to suffer for killing the Albatross?
13. Make a case for why the Ancient Mariner stops and tells his tale to the Wedding Guest of
all people. In your analysis, consider the Hermit, to whom the Ancient Mariner tells his
tale for the first time.

Answers: Self Assessment

1. (c) 2. (b)
3. (b) 4. (a)

5. (c) 6. (d)

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