Allena( Early and later life of Coleridge)

Coleridge was born on 21 October 1772 in the town of Ottery St Mary in Devon, England.[2] Samuel's father was
the Reverend John Coleridge (17181781), the well-respected vicar of St Mary's Church, Ottery St Mary and
headmaster of the King's School, Samuel was the youngest of ten by the Reverend Mr. Coleridge's second wife
Coleridge suggests that he "took no pleasure in boyish sports" but instead read "incessantly" and played by
himself Samuel was sent then sent to Christ's Hospital, a charity school which was founded in the 16th century
in Greyfriars, London, where he remained throughout his childhood, studying and writing poetry His childhood
was characterised by attention seeking, which has been linked to his dependent personality as an adult. [citation
needed]
He was rarely allowed to return home during the school term, and this distance from his family at such a
turbulent time proved emotionally damaging.[citation needed] He later wrote of his loneliness at school in the poem "Frost
at Midnight": "With unclosed lids, already had I dreamt/Of my sweet birthplace." From 1791 until 1794, Coleridge
attended Jesus College, Cambridge.[9] In 1792, he won the Browne Gold Medal for an ode that he wrote on
the slave trade.[10] In December 1793, he left the college and enlisted in the Royal Dragoons Coleridges opium
addiction began to take over his life at later stage in his life : He separated from his wife Sarah in 1808,
quarrelled with Wordsworth in 1810, lost part of his annuity in 1811, In 1809, Coleridge made his second attempt
to become a newspaper publisher with the publication of the journal entitled The Friend. Between 1810 and
1820, Coleridge gave a series of lectures in London and BristoIn
April 1816, Coleridge, with his addiction worsening, his spirits depressed, and his family alienated, took
residence in the Highgate homes Coleridge remained in Highgate for the rest of his life, and the house became a
place of literary pilgrimage for writers Coleridge died in Highgate, London on 25 July 1834 as a result of heart
failure compounded by an unknown lung disorder, possibly linked to his use of opium

JOSHMA( explaination cut and take)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This very celebrated poem twirls around a travel and
how a ship having passed the Line was driven by storms
to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how
from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude
of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that
befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came
back to his own Country
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (originally The Rime of the
Ancyent Marinere) is the longest major poem by the English
poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 179798 and published
in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads.
experiences of a sailor who has returned from a long sea voyage.
The mariner stops a man who is on the way to a wedding

ceremony and begins to narrate a story. The wedding-guest's

reaction turns from bemusement to impatience to fear to
fascination as the mariner's story progresses, as can be seen in
the language style: Coleridge uses narrative techniques such as
personification and repetition to create a sense of danger, the
supernatural, or serenity, depending on the mood in different
parts of the poem.
The poem has given rise to a multitude of interpretations,
stressing the existential, meaningless murder of the albatross in
an incomprehensible world; the Christian pattern of sin,
confession, and penance within a sacramental universe;
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
The Mariner, whose eye is bright,
Whose beard with age is hoar,
Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest
Turnd from the bridegrooms door.
He went like one that hath been stunnd,
And is of sense forlorn:
A sadder and a wiser man
He rose the morrow morn.
When they get on shore, the Mariner is desperate to tell his story
to the hermit. He feels a terrible pain until the story had been
told.
He stopped the Wedding Guest on this occasion.The Mariner
tells the Wedding Guest that he needs to learn how to say his
prayers and love other people and things. Then the Mariner
leaves, and the Wedding Guest no longer wants to enter the
wedding. He goes home and wakes up the next day, as the

famous last lines go, "a sadder and a wiser man." The Ancient
Mariner's final message is that by respecting all creatures, one
can become closer to God.