For HW this holiday I'd like you to do three things:
- Find the poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by Coleridge and read it (look here: http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/). Warning: it is quite long!
- Write a summary of what happens in the poem - please DON'T just copy one from the internet; I want it in your own words. This doesn't need to be very long - a paragraph is fine.
- Find an image from the internet that is related to the poem, print it out and stick it into your book. What part of the poem does it present?
This is due in for Tuesday 17th April.
See you then!
Mrs Roberts
A bridegroom goes to a wedding. And a mariner tells him a story. They are on a boat and a storm brews. Then they come out of the storm and eventually come to a very cold and icy ocean. Then an albatross starts to follow them. Then they shoot the albatross. Eventually all the men except for him die. Then they surprisingly they got up. Then as he wakes up from sleeping two men are talking about him. As the ship comes back to the Harbour where it first set off all the men die again. Next the mariner sees a boat coming to get him the ship sinks. As he is floating in the water he is pulled into the other boat. Eventually they come on to dry land. The mariner finishes his story and the bridegroom feels like he has been released from a spell
ReplyDeleteAn Ancient Mariner stops a man who is on his way to a wedding. The wedding guest listens to the tale that the Mariner tells him about a ship that gets caught in a storm at sea. The ship is lead out of the storm by an Albatross. But the Mariner, who is on board the ship, shoots the Albatross. The ship then stops still because there is no wind and does not sail again. One by one, the ship’s crew men die and the Ancient Mariner feels terrible and guilty about this and sees dead spirits. Eventually another ship comes and rescues the Mariner. The wedding guest gets more and more scared as the Ancient Mariner’s tale goes on. When the Mariner disappears at the end of his tale, the wedding guest is left by the bridegroom’s door, shocked at what he has heard.
ReplyDeleteThe ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ is a VERY long poem about a tale the Mariner told to a wedding guest. The mariner is on a ship in a vicious storm and an albatross leads him and his crew out of it. After a while, the mariner shoots the albatross and the ship comes to a sudden halt. Eventually, all his crew die around him but he is still alive. Slowly, they get up and go back to what they were doing. When the mariner awakes, two men are talking about him. Finally, another ship saves him and he gets rowed home. The mariner finishes his tale and leaves the guest stood by the bride-groom’s door – alarmed at this tale of death and terror.
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