The rime of the ancient mariner {part 4}

The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner {Part IV}
Karishma Mili Dhiman
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Poem Summary & analysis
• "I fear thee, ancient • The wedding guest is scared
mariner! of the ancient mariner
I fear thy skinny hand! because he thinks that he is
And thou art long, and lank, a ghost by his long, brown
and brown, skinny hand.
As is the ribbed sea-sand.

• The wedding guest says that
• I fear thee and thy glittering he fears the ancient
eye, mariner, his eyes and his
And thy skinny hand, so skinny hand which is so
brown." – brown. The ancient mariner
"Fear not, fear not, thou reassures him that he is no
wedding-guest! ghost. He was the only one
This body dropped not who survived
down.

• Alone, alone, all, all alone, • He tells him that he is all
Alone on a wide wide sea! alone in the sea with the
And never a saint took pity ghosts of the dead haunting
on him. He wishes that the
My soul in agony. spirits of the saints take pity
on him.

• The many men, so • He feels bad that all the
beautiful! good and beautiful men
And they all dead did lie: have died but still the slimy
And a thousand thousand things and he himself
slimy things stayed alive.
Lived on; and so did I.

• I looked upon the rotting • He looked around the sea
sea, but then got upset and
And drew my eyes away; drew his eyes away. Then he
I looked upon the rotting looked at the deck and saw
deck, that the dead men lay
And there the dead men lay. there.

• I looked to heaven, and • He looks up to heaven to
tried to pray; pray to save his soul but
But or ever a prayer had then he hears an evil laugh
gushed, like a devil that takes away
A wicked whisper came, and his enthusiam for prayer
made and scares him.
My heart as dry as dust.

• I closed my lids, and kept • He closes his eyes to avoid
them close, looking at the dreadful
Till the balls like pulses scene around him. His eyes
beat; are hurt by looking at the
For the sky and the sea, and
the sea and the sky scene and the dead bodies
Lay like a load on my weary were at his feet.
eye,
And the dead were at my
feet.

• The cold sweat melted from • He sees that the bodies of
their limbs, the dead sailors did not rot
Nor rot nor reek did they: but looked at him with the
The look with which they eyes that still cursed.
looked on me
Had never passed away.

• An orphan's curse would • The curse of the dead’s
drag to hell were worse than that of the
A spirit from on high; orphan’s. but this is a bad
But oh! more horrible than indication because the
that
Is the curse in a dead man's curse of an orphan could
eye! drag a spirit down to hell.
Seven days, seven nights, I For one whole week, he had
saw that curse, to see that curse but yet
And yet I could not die. could not die.

• The moving moon went up • The moon rose in the sky
the sky, and did not stand still. She
And nowhere did abide: was going up with a star or
Softly she was going up, two next to her.
And a star or two beside –

• Her beams bemocked the • The moonlight falls on the
sultry main, ship like frost in April. But
Like April hoar-frost spread; the place where the shadow
But where the ship's huge of the ship fall, he could see
shadow lay, water burnt in red.
The charmed water burnt
alway
A still and awful red.

• Beyond the shadow of the • He still sees the strange
ship, colours like red. The trails
I watched the water snakes: left by the sea snakes are
They moved in tracks of mischevious white light.
shining white,
And when they reared, the
elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes

• Within the shadow of the • At the shadow of the ship,
ship he sees different colours of
I watched their rich attire: the water snakes : blue,
Blue, glossy green, and glossy green and velvet
velvet black, black. When they swam,
They coiled and swam; and they left trails of golden fire.
every track
Was a flash of golden fire.

• O happy living things! No • He gets excited looking at
tongue them. He praises them of
Their beauty might declare: their beauty. Unknowingly
A spring of love gushed from he blesses the creatures
my heart,
with all his heart.
And I blessed them unaware:
Sure my kind saint took pity on
me,
And I blessed them unaware.

• The selfsame moment I • It has taken only the
could pray; blessings for the snakes to
And from my neck so free remove his horrible curse.
The albatross fell off, and He has been hanging the
sank albatross around his neck
Like lead into the sea. for the whole time and now
it fell off his neck and deep
into the sea.

The rime of the ancient mariner {part 4}

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