The rime of the ancient mariner

exercises

Es1

a) there are two setting  (the party and the ship) and two principal characters (the mariner and the wedding-guest). During a party the guest meets an old mariner ad he is forced to listen his story about a voyage by sea. In the story the sailor was sailing to the South pole, the trip started well but one day the ship is hitten by a storm while he was in a frozen place. When an albatross came thought the fog the crew greeted it. It gave good luck to the expedition but after nine days the ancient mariner killed it.   

b) there are two storylines: the first is developed during the merrymaking and the second is developed on a ship in the past.

Es2

1. the portrait of the mariner is not very detailed, the poet uses only four expression to describe him: v 1-19-79 “ancient man”, v 3-11 “long grey bear”, v 9 “skinny hand”, v 20-40 “bright-eyed mariner”/ v 3 “glittering eye”. 

2. the old man do not strike me as a real, true-life figure because his description is too much vague. The old man figure strike me because in my mind I imagine the figure of this man.

Es3

1. type and features of the scapes passed through the journey can be defined with the list of the different weather that characterized the second storyline:

vv 21-24          good weather

            Vv 41-50         Storm-blast

            Vv 51-62         mist and snow

            Vv 71-74         good weather

2. two natural elements are personified: “the Sun” and “the Storm-blast”. We can discover this because the both two words start with capital letter. In particular the Storm-blast is described like an strong and arrogant person and like an enormous bird with big wings.

3. in my opinion the nature is represented both in a realistic way and in an symbolic way.

Es4

The key element of the second storyline, in my opinion, is surely the albatross. It is written in the ballad with a capital letter to underline that it is not only a bird but it is an allegory of safety and  peace, it saved the crew by the storm and it is killed by the ancient mariner