Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
- Key Ideas
- Themes
- Penance
- Solitude
- Forgiveness
- Crime and Punishment
- Parts
- Part I
- The Wedding Guest, the
voyage, stuck in ice, he kills the
albatross.
- 1. The Mariner stops a wedding guest
and forces him, spell bound, to listen to
his story.
- 2. The ship sails south to the
equator, the wedding guest
hears the music of the
wedding beginning.
- 3. A storm hits the ship and impels it
south. They are stuck in ice. An
albatross appears and is befreiended by
the shipmates. Asouth wind springs up
and takes them northward.
- 4. The Mariner kills the albatross
with his crossbow.
- Part II
- They suffer punishment for his
crime & are becalmed.
- 1. The crew at first cry out against him, but then
commend him when the fog clears. They sail north and
become becalmed at the equator. They suffer from
thirst. Slimy things are on the surface and the light are
on the water and mast at night.
- 2. A spirit follows them under the ship.
- 3. They hang the bird around his neck.
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part V
- Part VI
- Part VII
- Characters
- The Mariner
- The Wedding Guest
- Death and Life-in-Death
- Spirits/Voices
- The Hermit
- Pilot and Pilot's Boy
- Settings/Symbols
- The Sun
- The Moon
- The Ocean
- The Ship