1. IOT: Begin an overview of the Romantic Movement in literature.
Have you ever done something stupid and known it was stupid at the time? Why did you do it? What were the consequences? Would you do it again?
SW: Work as a class to analyze symbolic elements from Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
IOT: Begin an overview of the Romantic Movement in literature.

2. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
SW: Work as a class to analyze symbolic elements from Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
IOT: Begin an overview of the Romantic Movement in literature.

3. Rime of the Ancient Mariner
published in 1798 in Lyrical Ballads, a collection of poems that essentially launched the movement known as British Romanticism.
The collection marked a pretty radical departure from the standard poetry of the time, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has several hallmarks that would later become associated with Romanticism:
elements of the supernatural
a deep sense of history
lots of dramatic images of nature
formal experimentation
an interest in conversational language

4. Archetypes in Rime of the Ancient Mariner
How do different archetypes, as seen in H2RL, play out in “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”?
How does “Mariner” represent the elements of the Romantic movement?

5. Symbols
What does the albatross symbolize, and why does the Mariner decide to kill it?
What does "Life-in-Death" represent, and what is the result of her winning the dice match with Death?
Who or what is responsible for the curse against the Mariner?

6. Religion
Why does the Mariner get to survive to voyage when all the sailors die?
Does this seem like a religious or specifically Christian poem? Why or why not?
What are the two voices that the Mariner hears?

7. The Weather: The Good, The Bad, and The Icy
What different types of weather appear in the poem and what role does the weather play in the poem?
What’s the deal with Coleridge’s use of the moon? Why is it important? What’s the relationship between the moon and the ocean? How is the portrayal of the moon different from his use of the sun?

8. Color
How does Coleridge use color? What do different colors symbolize? Why is the use of color so important to this poem?

9. IOT: Begin an overview of the Romantic Movement in literature.
Read and Annotate “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth. How does the poem reflect the characteristics of Romanticism? What insight into the Human Condition does it provide?
SW: Work as a class to analyze symbolic elements from Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
IOT: Begin an overview of the Romantic Movement in literature.

10. With your group:
Illustrate what happens in your assigned part of the poem. Write 2-3 sentences summarizing.
Annotate as many examples in your part as you can of the following types of figurative language and sound devices.
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Assonance
Internal rhyme
Annotate examples in your part of stanzas that have irregular ballad meter (i.e. they don’t sound like the other stanzas). What occurs in these stanzas that is different or important?

11. Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Essentially a Mash-Up
Lyrics are emotional, rhyming poems
Ballads are stories in poetic form
Lyric poems have a musical rhythm, and their topics often explore romantic feelings or other strong emotions.
You can usually identify a lyric poem by its musicality: if you can imagine singing it, it's probably lyric poetry.
Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain.
Focus on show not tell language
Most stanzas have four-lines, called a "quatrain," and an ABCB rhyme scheme.
The line lengths alternate between eight syllables in the first and third lines, and six syllables in the second and fourth