Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

Throughout our class and readings this semester we have gone through many different pieces of literature discussing the many different themes, patterns, along with many other important elements that make up great pieces of literature. This semester we have been covering a lot of material on the uncanny more known as a feeling of strange or mysteriousness along with stories congaing lots of darks and gory images including lots of deaths and unexpected deaths. A pattern I have seen occur quite a lot throughout these readings is the mysterious unknown killings of many characters. In a few different stories this semester we are given the murders of a few different characters which are unknown and really helps build suspense and ultimately keeps
Not only is the story unusual, but presents some of the oddest encounters I have ever read before. Not only are there unusual deaths of shipmates but also an albatross bird which is killed by the mariner for no known reason. Not only does this help build the story but it also keeps the reader thinking and on the edge of their seat. As the story progresses the mariner and his crew seem to have to overcome many obstacles along their journey. As the trip starts to get better and the sailors seem to make it out of the unnatural weather, things only begin to get a little worse. Not only do they reach a ghost ship manned by death, which is where the mysteriousness really comes into play. All of a sudden all the ship mates except the mariner dropped dead on the deck. Not only is this odd and puzzling but very strange. In the story the article states “Four times fifty living men, (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) with heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one.”(Coleridge. 4) This quotes explains the how each member of the mariner’s ship had died for absolutely no reason. This is very strange and confusing because we don’t see people dying for no reason every day. This sense of mysteriousness and not knowing, really helps create a good gothic literature piece
In the poem we are brought upon a woman who cannot seem to escape her dreary life on her old beat down farm day after day. In the poem the author uses the lines every other verse “She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" (Tennyson) These lines not only show how the lady feels about herself but her beloved man who she says will never return. These lines really help make a stance for gothic ligature because by reading these lines over and over again, every verse after a couple times it really impacts a reader and the way the view the story, by using these lines right of the bat it allows the reader to view the rest of the poem in a sense of darkness and horror, which is really key when writing gothic