Question

Write, in brief, about "The Ancient Mariner" of S.T. Coleridge.

Answer 1

Ans. "The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner" is Coleridge's chief contribution to the lyrical Ballads of 1798. It is one of the world's masterpieces. The poem introduces the reader to a supernatural realm with a phantom ship, a crew of dead men, the overhanging curse of the albatross, the polar spirit, and the magic breeze. It manages to create a sense of absolute reality concerning all the mechanisms of the poem, its meter, rhyme and melody are perfect. Its descriptions of the lonely sea have never been equalled. Perhaps we should say suggestions rather than description for Coleridge never describes things, but makes a suggestion always brief and always exactly right and our own imagination instantly supplies the details. The poem is a masterpiece of Coleridge's poetic skill and represents the romantic school of poetry in toto.