English 1022E Lecture Notes - Internal Rhyme

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Mariner stops one of the guests and forces him to listen to the story: guest listens like a three years child . Tale that he tells comes from the graybeard loon ancient skinny hand glittering eye . Uses glittering eye to hold the guest **repeated. The mariner has a story that he must tell. Four times in part one the guest resists hearing the story. Guest protests that he should be at this wedding. Sits on stone and listens powerless to do anything but hear the story. Rime land of ice, leaves whiteness on everything. Power of nature seen through personification of the storm. Rime no wedding environment, the ship arrives there and the ice is massed high : onomatopoeia personifies the land of ice, sense of emptiness, alienated. The albatross appears out of nowhere, uncanny, comes out of the fog, looking for a tangible source of god, see the albatross as a christian soul, makes it comfortable,