Quotes

• Coleridge capitalises ‘the Spirit’, ‘the Albatross’ and ‘the Sun’ as well as God - equalising religion with nature and the supernatural?
• Thy long grey beard and glittering eye
• He holds him with his glittering eye
• Listens like a three years child
• The STORM-BLAST came, and he was tyrannous and strong: He struck with his o’ertaking wings…
• The ice was here, the ice was there, the ice was all around
• It (ice) cracked and growled and roared and howled
• As if it had been a Christian soul, We hailed it in god’s name
• P2 - the good south wind still blew behind
• P2 - and I had done a hellish thing
• P2 - like God’s own head, the glorious sun uprist
• P2 - ah wretch! Said they, such birds to slay, that made the breeze to blow v. ‘Twas rights, said they, sich birds to slay, that bring the fog and mist’
• We were the first that ever burst into that silent sea
• P2 - Day after day, day after day
• P2 - as idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean
• P2 - water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink
• P2 - slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea
• P2 - the water, like a witch’s oils, Burnt green, and blue and white
• P2 gloss - polar spirit is ‘one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels … they are very numerous, and there is no climate or element without one or more’
• P2 - instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung
• P3 - with throats unslaked, with black lips baked
• P3 ghost ship - without a breeze, without a tide
• P3 LIFE-IN-DEATH - her lips were red, her looks were free, her locks were yellow as gold: her skin was white as leprosy …
• P3 LIFE-IN-DEATH - the game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!
• P3 - one by one, by the star-dogged Moon … each cursed me with his eye
• P3 - four times fifty living men (and I heard nor sigh nor groan) with heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down one by one’
• P3 - their souls did from their bodies fly - They fled to bliss or woe
• P4 wedding guest - I fear thee and thy glittering eye
• P4 - alone alone all all alone, alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on my soul in agony
• P4 - the many men so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: and a thousand thousand slimy things lived on and so did I
• P4 - I looked to heaven and tried to pray
• P4 - the dead were at my feet
• P4 - Oh happy living things! … A spring of love gushed from my heart, and I blessed them unaware: sure my kind saint took pity on me
• P4 - the self same moment I could pray … the albatross fell off, and sank like lead into the sea
• P4 - to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from heaven
• P4 - they raised their limbs like lifeless tools
• P4 - a noise like a hidden Brook in the leafy month of june
• P4 -the spirit slid and it was he that made the ship to go
• P4 - the spirit who bideth by himself in the land of mist and snow, he loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow
• P5 - they groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, nor spake nor moved their eyes