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 Paraphrase:  Mariner can pray and sleep again. Exhausted from curse and thirst, he falls a sleep and credits his sleep to Mary Queen.  He wanted to drink water, and he dreams about drinking water. When he wakes up, it rains.  My problem of thirst was gone. Even though I drank water in dream, my body absorbed moisture.

 Paraphrase (continue):  He feels as light as if he had died, and became a happy ghost.  He heard a roaring wind. It was from far away. Even though wind did not reach to sail, the sound made sails to move.  He sees new activity in the sky. More stars return and sees things he calls fire-flags  He sees black cloud coming with more roaring wind. The rain poured down from the black cloud.

 Paraphrase (continue):  The moon was still with the black cloud. The lighting falls in a perfectly vertical fashion.  The wind never reached the ship, but mysterious force moves the ship.  The dead sailors rise up in the thunder and lighting.  He helps his brother’s son. They pulled one rope, but they did not talk one word.

 Paraphrase (continue):  The Mariner reassures the frightened Wedding Guest that the bodies of the sailors were possessed not by their original owners, but by bunch of good spirits.  When dawn comes, zombies escape from the bodies and break out into a song.

 Paraphrase (continue):  The spirits float around the ship and sing a sweet song like birds.  They make beautiful sound like playing instruments and now he perceived it as an angel’s song.  They stop singing after noon. The sails continue to make a pleasant sound like a stream following through a forest.

 Paraphrase (continue):  He assumed that someone(nine fathom) or something is moving the boat from underneath the ocean.  His ship back to equator. At noon the sun is again directly above the mast. Then, the ship stops and remains motionless for a bit.  The ship takes off as if someone has just released a horse. The sudden force knocks out the mariner.

 Paraphrase (continue):  After he gets conscious, he hears the two different voices from sky.  One voice was kind of judgmental; see if he was the person who killed the innocent albatross  The another one said that the mariner has done a lot of penance for his mistake, and he will do more penance in the future.

 Taylor Coleridge used the colloquial words in his poem.  The descriptions (semantics) about the angels’ voice, ship, his surroundings make the poem more vividly and expressively.  All the words composed of the poem except for the symbolism of the some words (Angel’s song, sun, moon) has no connotations.  Mary Queen has only etymology in this poem. This word is just referred back to the time when there were a lot of mariners to sail around sea.

 The Mariner in the poem felt desperation, fear, calmness, hopefulness, amusement.  This poem was serious, but sad. The mariner was desperate to survive in middle of the sea, but he knows at the end of the poem that his hardship doesn’t end yet…  The irony was that dead bodies become a sweet sound after dawn passed.  We felt same emotions as mariner felt in the poem.

 Mariner speaks himself: Soliloquy.  He just expresses his emotions about his situation he currently faces.  He doesn’t tell directly to readers (in this case, us)  we, as the readers, overhear his groans.

 Simile  As soft as honey-dew: (Line 116)  A noise like of a hidden brook (Line 77)  And now 'twas like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; (Line 69, 70)  Like waters shot from some high crag, (Line 33)  Metaphor  The silly buckets on the deck, (Line 6)

 Alliteration  Sweet sounds (Line 61)  And the sails did sigh like sedge; (Line 28)  Personification  The wan stars danced between. (Line 26)  They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; (Line 40, 41)

 We can imagine that one mariner with dead people sails. His ship doesn’t move since there is no wind blowing near his ship, but the invisible force moves his ship.  It described the mariner’s physical characteristics in the desperate situation.  Examples: My lips were wet, my throat was cold, (Line 10), I moved, and could not feel my limbs (Line 15)  It described the mariner’s environment.  Examples: In the land of mist and snow, (Line 112), And when I awoke, it rained. (Line 9)

 Symbolism.  Mary Queen: It symbolizes purity and holiness.  Angel’s Song: It symbolizes a hope and bless.  Sun: It expresses deep religious truths and consistently employed the sun as a symbol of God.  Moon: The moon symbolizes God, but the moon has more positive connotations than the sun  Dream: It is to communicate the power of the imagination, as well as the inaccessible clarity of vision.

 Some of stanzas consist of rhyme repetition of a final sounds. Most of the stanzas has repetition of words. Few examples are:  Line (104, 105); returned & discerned  Line (99, 101); bound & swound.  There are repetitions of lines in the poem. Few examples are:  Line (67, 69); sometimes… & sometimes…  Line (95, 97); with a short uneasy motion.  Line (28); And the sails did sigh like sedge

 Alliterations:  My lips were wet, my throat was cold, My garments all were dank; (Line 10, 11)  I moved, and could not feel my limbs: I was so light -almost I thought that I had died in sleep, (Line 14 – 17)  And the coming wind did roar more loud, And the sails did sigh like sedge; And the rain poured down from one black cloud; (Line )  Like waters shot from some high crag, The lightning fell with never a jag, (Line 33, 34)

 Taylor Coleridge, the composer of the poem, doesn’t use a standard form like a sonnet.  It is consisted of free verses with figurative languages.  There is no rhyme pattern. The poet used randomly used the rhyme in some of stanzas.

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