The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

• The mariner as text
• The ballad-measure a fictitious speaker beings
  his rime by story telling that the poems
  constitution is give from the mariners
  discourse.
• The discourse between mariner and wedding guest
  a set of codes of enigma rising with the
  proceeding storyline
• who is the mariner? what is the story
  about?
• Whenever the mariner repeats his story, the poem
  is dealing with reconstitution of the mariners
  identity within the discourse that produce
  meanings.

2
The Vision of Sea

• The first imprisonment a sea of ice
• The crew at the first time encounter the malice
  of nature operating as a prison.
• ?The mariner on less than a member of human
  community
• The imprisonment is temporal Albatross frees the
  ship.
• The second imprisonment a silent sea
• Visionary elements physical ? psychological
  imprisonment
• a painted ship in the painted sea
• The splitting of the mariner the poem now is
  dealing with the fate of a individual human
  being.
• ? Albatross hanging on the mariners neck

3
The Vision of Sea Outcast Hero

• Shooting Albatross the gratuitous act
• This motiveless act heightens a sense of
  identity
• motive has no concern the person who performs
  it matters
• ? the mariner apart from his crew
• The motiveless malevolence positions mariner in
  the genealogy of literary figures Shakespeares
  Iago, Miltons Satan . . .
• ? a wanderer, a man with chain, a rule breaker
• In the pure but emptied act, the mariner is
  deprived of his guilt, the pure crime of a pure
  murderer.
• The mariner is a killer The mariner is a
  outcast

4
The Vision of Sea Crucifixion

• The mariner a victim as Albatross
• The prison works in concert with Albatross whose
  blood reddened the sea.
• ? The bloody sun waterstill and awful red
• ? The mariner bit my arm, I sucked the blood
• The mariner embodiment of crucifixion
• Albatross on the mariners neck as Jesus on the
  cross
• ? Albatross a holy bird, an Christian Soul
• ? Mariner a container, a presence of
  crucifixion

5
The Vision of Ship

• Transfiguration of a Spectre-Bark
• Mariners ship a second-scale prison
• the painted ship in the painted sea
• The Spectre-bark a dungeon with fire
• . . . was flecked with bars a dungeon-grate
  he peered
• ? mariners ship coincides the spectre-bark
• Transfiguration of Life-in-Death
• Mariner Life-in-Death
• mariner turns to be Life-in-Death, a emptied
  self
• ? human body (Life-in-Death) as prison-measure
  

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Reconstitution of the Mariner

• The Steps in the Two visions
• The silent sea
• mariner? outcast ? container
• The spectre-bark
• prisoner? repressed? imprisoned body
• The mariner as text
• The mariner does not act but is continually
  acted upon.
• The mariner as no-self, functional means to
  connect acts and things in the fluid dissolve of
  imagination