Welcome to the second week of the fourth quarter! Buckle up! This is going to go very fast.
39-40 lesson
Monday/Tuesday
The Rime of the Ancient Marinier (make sure you are clicking on these links)
- What does the mariner look like?
- What is Mesmerism? The evil eye? To be fixed?
- line 45 -50 what is the ship compared to?
- Why are birds good omens?
- Why does the Mariner kill the albatross?
- How big is a Southern Royal Albatross? How long is the body and how much does it weigh? What is the biggest wingspan these birds have?
- If this was tied around his neck, where would the tail of the bird? would it be dragging the ground? How about the wingtips? Where would they be dragging?
- line 119-121 why are these lines so famous?
- lines 169-170 what suggests this is a supernatural ship? what might this foreshadow?
- part V In a metaphorical sense, Why might the drought be over for the mariner?
- line 327-340 what happens here?
- lines 367-382 How is the ship sailing? Who or what is doing it?
- compare lines 22-24 to line 464-467 what has happened here? Where is he? What is the purpose of these comparisons?
- line 542-555 what has happened? Where is the mariner?
- What kind of message can we take away from this poem? What was he trying to say then?
“He prayeth best who lovest best,
All things both great and small,
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all. - use a time line to summarize the main events of the Mariner’s story. Here are the first and final events:
the ancient mariner stops a wedding guest to tell his tale of woe.
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The wedding guest leaves sadder and wiser. - Who is the narrator of the ballad? To who is he telling the story.
- In part two what are the consequences of killing the albatross?
- In part iv, why is the mariner unable to pray? What happens to change this?
- At the end of the ballad, how does the mariner describe his current life?
- Describe in detail the changing mental states of the mariner in part iv. Given the circumstances, are these changes believable?
- Name three effects the Mariner’s story has on the wedding guest. In your opinion, does each effect seem likely or unlikely? explain.
- What is the Mariner’s penance lines 408-409? Does it seem fair to you that he should have to do any sort of penance? Why?
- Explain in your own terms the Mariner’s moral lines 612-617. Does the story indicate that he ought to have added something to his moral conclusion? Explain.
- This ballad is famous for its use of vivid figurative sound devices. Find in the poem a striking example of each of the following: simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyme.
- For the most part, the form of the poem is the regular ballad stanza. Occasionally, however, Coleridge varies the meter of the lines and the length of the stanzas. Choose one irregular stanza and explain how it differs from a regular one. What effects do these changes have on the poem?
- Sometimes the archaic meaning of a word gives us a clue to the history of a word in current use. Look at the word jargoning in line 362 for example. What does the word jargon mean today? What other archaic words are still in use today that you can find in the poem?
- There was a time in American history when almost every schoolchild could recite parts of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Find some stanzas that strike you as particularly quotable. What situations in contemporary life could you apply the lines to?
Wednesday
Study Sync:
Study Sync: First Read Ancient Mariner
Iron Maiden Version with Lyrics
Thursday/Friday
Study Sync: Modern Day Albatross Blast
Study Sync: First Read Ancient Mariner
Finish up Rime of the Ancient Mariner!
Are the lyrics in the Iron Maiden song the same as the poem? What are the differences?
Out of the three audio versions and the Iron Maiden version, which do like better? Why?
Are the lyrics in the song the same as the poem?
- What are the differences?
- What places does the song change in tone or tempo? List every place where it changes.
- When and why does it change? List the lyrics that indicate the difference.
- Why does the singer whisper? What is he whispering? What is the effect of this whispering?
- Is the whispering effect better than the reading that we heard earlier this week?
- Does this song explain the song better than the reading? Why? Why not?
- What happens to the Mariner in the song? Is it the same or different then the poem?
- Why do you think this poem lends itself to music so well?
- What is the difference between songs and poems?
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