The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Style 1 key example

Part I
Explanation and Analysis:

The style of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is fairly typical of 18th-century Romantic poetry in several ways. Firstly, Romantic poetry is known for expansive descriptions of nature. Coleridge provides many natural descriptions throughout the poem, but here is a key example from Part I:

Listen, Stranger! Mist and Snow, 

And it grew wond'rous cauld:

And Ice mast-high came floating by

As green as Emerauld.