Poetry in

Analyzing 4 Elements of Fiction of poem

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By:

Auha Amalina (E1D018017)

Aulia Maharani (E1D018018)
Baiq Jihan Olvy Wanasatya (E1D018028)
Class:
IV/A Morning

University of Mataram
2020
 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

A. Figurative Languages
1. Symbolism
Symbolism is the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are
different from their literal sense.
At length did cross an Albatross, (63)
The “albatross” generally considered a sign of good luck.

2. Enjambment
Enjambment is the running over of the sense and grammatical structure from one verse line or couplet to
the next without punctuated pause.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge uses enjambment in lines:
And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he (41)
Was tyrannous and strong: (42)

And through the drifts the snowy clifts (55)

Did send a dismal sheen: (56)

Instead of the cross, the Albatross (141)

About my neck was hung. (142)

3. Personifications
Personification is a figure of speech which personifies an inanimate object.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge comparisons of the sun to a person:
The Sun came up upon the left, (25)
Out of the sea came he! (26)
And he shone bright, and on the right (27)
Went down into the sea. (28)

4. Simile
Simile is an explicit comparison between two different things, actions, or feelings, using the words “as”
or “like”.
The Wedding-Guest stood still, (14)
And listens like a three years' child: (15)
Likening the attentiveness of the Wedding-Guest to the complete attention given by a small child.
The bride hath paced into the hall, (33)
Red as a rose is she; (34)
Likening the beauty of the bride to be beauty of rose.
Every souls is passed by (223)
Like the whizz of my crossbow! (224)
The author likening the passing soul to the sound of a shot arrow.

5. Metaphor
Metaphor is thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing
to suggest some common quality shared by the two.
Each turned his face with a ghastly pang, (215)
And cursed me with his eye (216)
The expression of those lines likening the appearance of the eye to a curse.

6. Irony
Irony is a figure of speech or figurative language in which words are used in such a way that their
intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words.
Water, water, every where, (119)
And all the boards did shrink; (120)
Water, water, every where, (121)
Nor any drop to drink. (122)
It states that the water is everywhere, but the meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words
where there is none to drink.

7. Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is a word which imitates the natural sounds of thing.
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, (61)
It is imitate the sounds that what author’s refers.

B. Setting
Setting of place : In the road of wedding reception (When mariner stops a guest of wedding party to tell
his story) quoted from “The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din. He holds him with
his skinny hand, The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot chuse but hear; And thus spake on that
ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.”

Setting of time : Daytime

Setting of situation : Gripping ( after mariner killed the bird, terrible situation suddenly happened. The
ship is stucked and all crews are died because of terrible thirst and hunger)

C. Plot Scheme of the Story

Exposition: The story set both on a boat years before and in present day outside of a wedding. The main
character is the Mariner and he is talking to a wedding guest he meets on the street. The Mariner wants to
tell his journey on the boat to the wedding guest.
Rising action: The rising action of this story is when the Mariner’s ship ends up trapped in ice, but the
ship was able to move because there was an Albatross that followed them. But the Mariner killed the
Albatross. He did it impulsively which upset the whole crew. Because now there are no Albatross that
help the ship moves, the ship ended up in some strange water with sun shine brightly above the Mariner’s
and his crew’s head and they have no water nor food. The Mariner had to hang the dead Albatross on his
neck as the punishment for his action.
Climax: Death and life-in-death came with ghostly ship and gambled with the men’s lives. The mariner
got to live and the crew got death. The mariner had to stay alive on the ship surrounded by his dead crew
without food or water.
Falling action: When the curse from the spirit was lifted and the boat could move once again. The mariner
was able to see beauty when he saw the snakes in the water, he was also able to pray. The spirits of the
dead crews help the ship to sail until it reach the Mariner’s home harbor. There, when the spirits left the
dead crew’s body, the Mariner was found in the ship by the Pilot, his son, and a Hermit.
Denouement: The Pilot and Hermit thought that the Mariner is dead, but he isn’t. As soon as the Mariner
get off from his ship, the ship sinks. He then telling his story to the Pilot and Hermit. After telling them
his story, the Mariner’s feels better. And now the Mariner is wondering around to tell other people about
his tale, so that he will feel free from his sins.

D. Message
The Rime in the Ancient Mariner poem warn us not to act rashly and think first before doing our action.
Because some actions can led into terrible consequences as shown in the poem. By killing the Albatross
impulsively, the Mariner had put his crew into a danger situation where life and death are at stake as the
consequence of his actions. Also, this poem warn us to love nature and all the creatures in it, because
when you trying to conquer the nature and abruptly killing some of its creature, the nature as her own
ways to avenge you.
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