"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, also known as S. ... The frame of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a young man on the way to a wedding reception. ... The mariner begins his tale. ... Part III is the most bizarre section of the poem. ... The mariner disappears. ...
No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by Emperor and Clown ." ... The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is another of Coleridge's more famous poems and it too conveys depression, but more subtly than the others The supernatural feel that this particular poem has is unique, and to many other poets like Blake and Wordsworth the concept was unexplored. ... However the subject matter in sections tends to shroud the poem in gloom, for example as the mariner is left alone: Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! ....
It is known that Coleridge never wrote a piece that had any substantial length except for the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," which could be taken to mean that he was unable to complete a work. ... Howard affirms that "undeveloped fragments of great ideas can say more in their stammering, half-matured way than any fully-grown frivolity ever did" meaning that a small section can convey more of a message than one entire piece (7). ...
