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C Coming Up: vocabulary quiz on Wednesday; preparation for "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" thematic essay. On Wednesday, you will have a short assessment on the "Mariner", which will involve some paraphrasing of the text and general plot questions. If you have been attentive in class, this will be an easy A.
In Class: power point review of vocabulary for tomorrow's quiz; review of semicolons from "more commonly misused words"; period 3: finishing "Mariner" part VII, stanza 118; periods 6/ 9 Quick write (see below); periods 6 /9 listening/ watching Iron Maiden's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner""rime of the ancient mariner" music (the lyrics sum up the plot / characters quite accurately)...Make sure you have finished the graphic organizer.
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1. He promised to reform however a few days later he forgot everything.
1 2. John is a former police office, he now stays home with his children.
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3. If you trim the tree it will look better but if you chop it down we will miss it.
4. Time passes very quickly these days it seems as if you were here just yesterday.
5. As cucumbers grow their vines need room to expand.
6. Martin Luther King did not intend to become a preacher,
originally he wanted to be a lawyer.
Quick Write for periods 6 and 9.
Below is the final stanza of the poem. Explain
what has just occurred (reread section VII, if you are unsure) and explain what is meant in this stanza. Address especially, "a sadder and a wiser man."
He went like one that hath been stunned,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
Major Themes
The Natural World: The Physical
While it can be beautiful and frightening (often simultaneously), the natural world's power in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is unquestionable.
The Spiritual World: The Metaphysical
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" occurs in the natural, physical world-the land and ocean. However, the work has popularly been interpreted as an allegory of man's connection to the spiritual, metaphysical world.
Liminality
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" typifies the Romantic fascination with liminal spaces. A liminal space is defined as a place on the edge of a realm or between two realms, whether a forest and a field, or reason and imagination.
Imprisonment
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is in many ways a portrait of imprisonment and its inherent loneliness and torment.
Retribution
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a tale of retribution, since the Ancient Mariner spends most of the poem paying for his one, impulsive error of killing the Albatross.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Vocabulary quiz, Wednesday, December 13
1.kin (noun)- one's family and relations.
2. kirk (noun)- church (most often used in Scotland)
3. tyrannous (adjective)- unjustly severe (think of a tyrant)
4. prow (noun)- the portion of a ship's bow above water.
5.shroud (noun)- a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial; a thing that envelops
6. to aver (verb)- state or assert to be the case.
7 7. furrow (noun)- long narrow trench made in the ground by a plow or a rut or groove; note that you may have a furrow (noun) on your brow and you may furrow (verb) your brow
8 8. agape (adjective) - agog, wide open, especially with surprise or wonder; gobsmacked
9. gossamers (noun)- a fine, filmy substance consisting of cobwebs; used to refer to something very light, delicate. (think fairy wings)
1 10. spectre-bark (noun) - ghost ship
11. vespers (noun)- the sixth of the canonical hours (times one was required to pray)
12. skiff (noun)- a flat bottomed boat.
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