Audience Purpose and Tone RIME OF THE ANCIENT

Audience, Purpose, and Tone RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

Theme… How do you know when someone is acting guilty? Give specific examples from your own experiences What does guilt do to you? ○ ISOLATION ○ DIVISION

“Rime of the Ancient Mariner” Infer… Setting? Main Character? Structure? Theme?

Audience Who is intended to read this ballad? Romantics of the time: Science vs. Spirituality; Industry vs. nature Christian allusions Anyone who feels plagued by guilt

Techniques Sound devices Imagery Other Lyric Poetry Figurative Language Strategies

Sound Devices Repetition: repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or sentences. Poets use repetition for emphasis as well as to create a musical effect. There are three popular devices that rely on repetition: “The fair breezefiend blew, the white foal “a frightful / Doth close “The western wave was all “With heavy thump, a lifeless flew…” behind…” aflame. ” lump, …” Rhyme: repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds Consonance: repetition of final consonant sounds Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds End rhyme is the most common type of rhyme, which occurs when rhyming words appear at the ends of lines. Onomatopoeia: use of words that imitate sounds—for example, words like ring, boom, and growl. Now let’s practice…pg 6 packet

Making meaning Identifying how words are powerful Analyzing then interpreting images Page 7 of packet

What is the author’s purpose? Explain your response To inform? To teach? To persuade? To entertain?

Audience, Purpose, and Tone RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER

“Instead of the cross, the Albatross/ About my neck was hung” “I had killed the bird / That made the breeze to blow” “Hailed it in God’s name” “Christian soul” “Crimson red like Gods own head” Bear that… Cross? Albatross? Saul/Paul… “blessed them unawares”

STRUCTURE: Sin, Punishment, Redemption… Of Lucifer - Of Adam & Eve- …cast into hell? …forbidden fruit? “…slimy things … “I shot the albatross” Slimy sea” “…the very deep did rot…” “…and I had done a hellish thing…” Many critics see the ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ as an allegory of some kind of fall, like…… Of Coleridge …opium? “witch’s oils, / … burnt green, and blue and white”

Colerid ge felt a sin for his opiu deep sense o f m was “st ill haun addiction. He ted by to brea h i s failure k free f rom op ium. ” - Holm es The poem could be his way of fathoming his feelings. The “strange power” of the Ancient Mariner, as his difficult feelings. “mingled strangely with my fears” “I know that man … must hear me” / “To him my tale I teach”

Coleridge Just as the Ancient Mariner has to re-tell his tale, Coleridge has to keep on returning to this poem and revising it…

r Marine SIN Coleridg e Punishment Redemption How can we represent theme visually?

He went like one that hath been stunned And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

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Tone/diction = Audience/purpose

Purpose? To Inform? To Persuade? How can we represent the purpose visually? To Entertain? To Teach?