Concetti Chiave
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an English poet, authored "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", part of Lyrical Ballads.
- The poem narrates an ancient mariner who compels a wedding guest to listen to his extraordinary sea voyage tale.
- Initially welcomed, an albatross guides the ship, but the mariner kills it, leading to dire consequences.
- The crew punishes the mariner by hanging the dead albatross around his neck as misfortunes unfold.
- The poem concludes with "Death" and "Life-in-Death" playing dice, sealing the fates of the crew and mariner.
"The Rime of the ancient mariner"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) and he wrote: The Rime of the ancient mariner. It is Coleridge’s masterpiece, and it’s the first poem of Lyrical Ballads.
The Plot
An ancient mariner compels a wedding guests listen to an incredible story about a sailing voyage. The wedding guest is unhappy, but the mariner can mesmerize him, to tell a story. He narrates that during a journey by sea, he and his shipmates meet an albatross that leads them in the clear: at first the crew receives well the albatross, then the ancient mariner kills him and after a while, a storm rages.
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