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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Parts 1 & 2″ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poetry reading)
Jul 25th, 2010 | permalink: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Parts 1 & 2″ by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poetry reading) | Category: poetryThe complete text with marginal notes: www.bartleby.com “Soot” can be pronounced to rhyme with “root” – when I was a boy many older people pronounced it that way, but I haven’t heard it lately.
I always loved this poem and am so glad to hear your soulful reading of it. I discovered it in the novel “Frankenstein.”
this is the most beautiful poem ive ever heard
Excellent! You paint the picture beautifully and effectively with this dramatic reading. Thanks!
Wonderful poem, wonderfully read. Thank you.
this is wonderful. something in this poem reminds me of moby dick. maybe it is the sea theme, but the underlying evil is similar. thank you.
Bravo… faved and subbed
Potentially stupid question: Is it possible that in the 18-19th century, the word “mariner” rhymed with “hear” (i.e., mah-rin-neer)? Perhaps I shouldn’t allow myself to be bothered by the lack of rhyming
@mikepalomin It is hard to tell. Sometimes you can find an instance where it a line doesn’t scan or rhyme, which makes it obvious. “uTENsil was once pronounced “utenSIL”, for instance, because there’s a line in Wordsworth that makes it apparent. By the way, Brithsh submarine crew like to be called sub-mariners whereas Americans prefer submarine-ers.
@SpokenVerse Excellent. Thank you for the response!
Ii is called “poetic license”