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Overview
Author
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Year Published
1798
Type
Poetry
Genre
Drama
Perspective and Narrator
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner has two levels of narrative: it is a story within a story. The narrator uses a third-person limited voice. This narrator knows the thoughts of the Wedding Guest but not of the Mariner. However, the Wedding Guest is only present at the beginning and end of the poem for the most part.
Tense
Both the present and past tense are used in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
About the Title
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a rime, an alternate spelling of rhyme, told by an old sailor, or a mariner. The ancientness of his status suggests a kind of eternal wisdom, as if the Mariner has something to share with readers. However, rime can also mean "frost," an icy substance that can form on sails and ships. Antarctica, one of the locations detailed in the poem, also evokes this frosty image. The Mariner, too, is often described with frost imagery.
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