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Part 2
Stanzas 1-2
The Sun now rose upon the right: • Personification of sun conveys
(83) A a greater power with control.
Out of the sea came he, B The sun (a recurring symbol) is
presented in a less positive light
Still hid in mist, and on the left C
here:it is hidden in the mist, not
Went down into the sea. B shining "bright."
• The sky is misty and foggy, not
And the good south wind still blew clear.
behind, (87) • Passage of time and direction
But no sweet bird did follow,
Nor any day for food or play • The wind is blowing behind them
Came to the mariners’ hollo! but no bird, MOOD is timidly
optimistic but somewhat
foreboding.
(Mostly quatrain structure, with some
deviation) • Repetition and parallel
structure from part 1:
emphasizes significance of bird's
Stanza 3
And I had done an hellish thing (,91)
And it would work ’em woe:
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!
And some in dreams assured were haunts the ship mates in their dreams; only way
(131) to grasp these horrors is through dream and
imagination
Of the spirit that plagued us so;
comes from the depths of the ocean where evil
Nine fathom deep he had followed resides
us
From the land of mist and snow.
Gloss: A spirit had followed them; one of the invisible reference to writers of demons and supernatural
inhabitants of this planet , neither departed souls beings
nor angels; concerning whom the learned Jew
Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan,
Michael Psellus, may be consulted. They are very
numerous, and there is no climate or element
without one or more.
Stanza 13
And every tongue, through utter Crew members are suffering from
drought, (135) thirst and blaming the mariner for
their pain
Was withered at the root;
We could not speak, no more than if
Drought: (archaic) thirst
We had been choked with soot.
Figurative language/analogy to
being choked with soot
emphasizes agony
Stanza 14 "well-a-day:" (archaic) variant of
wellaway, used to express
Ah! well a-day! what evil looks (139) distress
Had I from old and young!
Instead of the cross, the Albatross The lack of communication between
About my neck was hung. the crew and the individual
condemnation of the Mariner
Gloss: The shipmates, in their sore distress,
emphasize the gothic element of
would fain throw the whole guilt on the (psychological) isolation
ancient Mariner: in sign whereof they hang
the dead sea-bird round his neck.
Significance of dead Albatross taking
the place of cross: guilt and curse
replaces faith in God and
goodness.