A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket.

Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, England. On the 21st October 1772 The 10th, adored, youngest son of the Reverend John Coleridge (53) and Ann Bowdon (45) Described his childhood life as full of fantasy, always played by himself After his father died (8) sent to Christs Hospital School n London where he started studying & writing poetry. Throughout life, idealized his father as pious and innocent, while his relationship with his mother was more problematic. Rarely allowed to return home during the school term = emotionally damaging 1791-94 Studied at Jesus College, Cambridge. 1792 won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote on the slave trade December 93 left the college and joined a movement stimulated by the French Revolt. using the false name "Silas Tomkyn Comberbache, readmitted again under the reason of insanity by his brother. Met radical future poet Robert Southey then n married his sister but unhappy.

Had attempts in newspapers publishing. Known to be highly disorganized and had no head for business, both didnt stay long. But The Friend was pretty influential- 25issues, effected writers n philosophers from J.S Mill to Emerson Lectured in London n Bristol (always terribly) but lecture on Hamlet given on 2 January 1812 that considered the best and has influenced Hamlet studies ever since Translator did Friedrich Schiller out of interest and Goethe's classic Faust; took the commission n abandoned it after 6weeks 1780 fought with bestfriend, Wordsworth 1781 took residence in the home of the physician James Gillman n remained for the rest of his life (18 years) There he finished his major prose work, the Biographia Literaria a volume composed of 23 chapters of autobiographical notes and dissertations on various subjects, including some incisive literary theory and criticism and composed much poetrya few from opium OD He died in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart failure compounded by an unknown lung disorder

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Mariner stops the Wedding guest.

The wedding guest hears the Mariner begin his tale.

The bride and groom arrived for the wedding banquet.

The ship is caught in the ice at the South pole, when the Albatross of good omen arrives.

The Mariner's isolation after killing the Albatross.

The ghost ship carrying Death and his mate, Life in Death. The two play a game for possession of the sailors' lives. Death wins the shipmate but Life in Death wins the Mariner.

With everyone around him dead, he remains alive with the Albatross hung around his neck as a symbol of guilt.

The Mariner see the creature around him and blesses them unaware. This act of love causes the Albatross to drop from his neck, and angelic spirit approach to begin his redemption.

His on going penance; he must live the rest of his life telling people about his story.
Gustav Dore's Illustrations for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 Nature in this poem is also being portrays as a very powerful

force against man based on the way it interacts with the ancient mariner.
Nature seems to be one of the characters itself in the poem.

Nature interacts with the mariners punishing the ancient mariner.

Nature is like a teacher that teaches moral to the ancient

mariner about loving all Gods creation which is Nature.

From the moment the Mariner killed the Albatross, a series of misfortunate comes in the form of natural phenomena. 1 They got stranded into a very silent sea than the wind died down. We were the first that burst Into that silent sea. we stuck, nor breath nor motion As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. 2 The sun intensifies All in a hot and copper sky The bloody Sun, at noon Right up above mast did stand No bigger than the moon.

3 The ocean thickened, making the men had no water to drink. Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere Nor any drop to drink. 4 The sea were rotting, with slimy creatures crawled out of it and walked across the surface. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. 5 A weary passed, the sailors became dry, their mouths so dry, they were unable to speak. And every tongue, through utter drought Was witherd at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot.

Only when the ancient mariner expresses his love for nature (the water snake) does his punishment abate a little. O happy living things! no tongue Their beauty might declare: A spring of love gushd from my heart, And I blessd them unaware: Sure my kind saint took pity on me And I blessd them unaware.

The poem tells the readers to love all Gods creation (Nature) To thee, thou Wedding Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all

1 Unlike Wordsworth, Coleridge focused mainly on

imagination as the key to poetry.

2 He divide imagination into 2 main components: The primary a spontaneous creation of ideas and they are expressed perfectly. The secondary moderated by the conscious act of imagination, it is hindered by not only imperfect creation, but also imperfect expression.
The poem is the work of imagination which contains a lot supernatural elements.

3 He did not agree that poetry is the language of the common man. 4 He thought that lowering diction and content will simply made the poet had a smaller vocabulary of both words and concepts to draw from. 5 The poem included numerous archaic words and spelling with the influenced of the old English ballads. eye yes (part 1, line 50) swound swoon (part 1, line 62) Spake past tense of speak (part 1, line 39) wist knew Gramercy! Great thanks! Twas, etc.

There are a lot of supernatural elements portrays in the poem. 1 As they are stranded, the sea burns with green, blue, and white with the death fire. The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witchs oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. 2 9 ghosts followed them from the land of the mist and snow. Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow.

3 The sailors saw a ghostly, skeletal hull of a ship that it crew included 2 figures : Death & Nightmare Life in Death They playing dice for the prize of the ships crew. Death wins the game, and takes all the crew while the Life in Death takes the mariner as he stays alive while the rest of the crews died. And is that Woman all her crew? Is that a Death? and are there two? The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks mans blood with cold.

4 All the dead crew rose up from the dead and start doing their own work. It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise; The helmsman streerd, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze up blew; The mariners all gan work the ropes,
This poem produce a wonder effects to the reader because it adds the

strangeness to beauty

O happy living things! No tongue Their beauty might declare A spring of love gushd from my heart
The poem is full with mysteries and it explores into the state of

consciousness common among children such as monsters, and ghost.

1 Nature scene is where individual could find freedom. 2 After all the crews died living only the mariner alive, he tried to pray to God but he could not. He was left alone on the ship. 4 Suddenly after the moon shone down the ship and the mariner saw the beautiful water snake and started to appreciate the creature, his was able to pray.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war !

The shadow of the dome of pleasure

Floated midway on the waves ;

Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice !

A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

 L42- Could I revive within me L43 Her symphony and song L44 To such a deep delight twould win me

 L46 I would build that dome in air

 L4 caverns measureless to man

L5 sunless sea L8 gardens bright with sinuous rills

L17 And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil

seething

ResolutionL46 I would build that dome in air

That sunny dome! Those caves of ice

 L36 A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice

L55 And drunk the milk of Paradise

 L38 In a vision once I saw L51 Weave a circle around him thrice

 L1 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

L38 In a vision once I saw

L42 Could I revive within me I would build that dome in air