(1772-1834)
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English
lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher, whose Lyrical Ballads,
written with William
Wordsworth, started the English Romantic movement.
1772
1791
1793
1794
1795
1797
1816
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a)
- he entered the Cambridge
University
b)
- next year Coleridge met
the future poet laureate Robert Southey (1774-1843). Coleridge moved with him
to Bristol to establish a community, but the plan failed.
c)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
was born in Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, he was the youngest of ten children
of the Reverend John Coleridge, and Ann Bowdon. Samuel was adored by his
parents. Later he described his childhood as full fantasy.
d) - in beginning of XIXth
century only his unfinished poems
'Christabel' and 'Kubla Khan' were published.
According to Coleridge, he heard the words to his famous 'Kubla Khan'
in a dream. He had retired to a lonely farm-house between Porlock and
Linton in the summer of 1797. After sleeping three hours, he woke
up with a clear image of the poem.
e) - in 1795 he married Sara Fricker, whom he did not really love.
f) - he died in Highgate,
near London
j) - but two years later he had to abandone his studies i)
- in the late 1790s
Coleridge formed a close friendship with William Wordsworth (1770-1850), one of
the most fruitful creative relationships in English literature. From this
friendship resulted Lyrical Ballads, which opened with
Coleridge's 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' and ended with Wordsworth's
'Tintern Abbey'. The poems set a new style by using everyday
language and fresh ways of looking at nature.
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Establishe – устанавливать; Abandone –
покидать, бросать; Describe – описывать;
Retire –
удаляться, уединяться
Find the English equivalent for :
Бросить учебу
Новый взгляд на природу
Описывать детство
Незаконченная поэма
Посвятить себя
Повлиять, оказать влияние
Результатом дружбы стало…
Плодотворный
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part I With sloping masts and dipping prow, ………………………………….. |
The ice was here, the ice was there,
howled,
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Find and read the describing of the paysage. How does the paysage influence
the image of the Mariner?
Can the Albatross be seen as a symbol?
Try to invent future fate of the Ancient Mariner.
Aye (уст., поэт.) - всегда bend – склонять,
сгибать blast – сильный порыв ветра blow – свистеть, гудеть crossbow – арбалет dip – погружаться drop – оставлять, покидать emerald – изумруд fiend – демон foe (поэт.) – враг, противник glimmer – мерцать, тускло светить glitter – сверкать growl – грохотать hail – приветствовать helmsman – рулевой howl – выть, завывать kirk (шотл.) – церковь o'ertake=overtake – застигнуть врасплох |
Perch – садиться (о птице) Plague – мучить prow – нос корабля pursue – преследовать shroud – ванты (мор.) soul – душа split - раскалываться spring
(sprang, sprung) up - возникать steer - править stoppeth = stops thunder – гром tread – подавить, уничтожить vesper (поэт.) - вечер yell – вопить, кричать |