The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-Part IV - Video
PUBLISHED:  Oct 06, 2011
DESCRIPTION:
Part IV of the poem. The following is excerpted from Colerdige's gloss:

But Life-in-Death begins her work on the ancient Mariner. The Wedding-Guest feareth that a Spirit is talking to him; but the ancient Mariner assureth him of his bodily life, and proceedeth to relate his horrible penance. He despiseth the creatures of the calm, and envieth that they should live, and so many lie dead. But the curse liveth for him in the eye of the dead men. In his loneliness and fixedness he yearneth towards the journeying Moon, and the stars that still sojourn, yet still move onward; and everywhere the blue sky belongs to them, and is their appointed rest, and their native country and their own natural homes, which they enter unannounced, as lords that are certainly expected and yet there is a silent joy at their arrival. By the light of the Moon, he beholdeth God's creatures of the great calm. Their beauty and their happiness. He blesseth them in his heart.
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