Rime of the Ancient Mariner was a poem produced by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. I found the book insanely confusing to understand at certain points. I liked this books’ plot though because I like the non-fiction, and the ghost crew and “Death & Life after death”. This book makes me think of what it would be like to have everyone you know be killed and you escaping back to your homeland, alive. At one part, I would think it would feel great to be back home, and you would usually feel victorious that you survived a chaotic trip. But at the same time, you wouldn’t be able to see your crew ever again and you would have flashing memories or maybe nightmares about the corpses laying on the ship. I would say that the ending made me feel sad, except I’m just happy the Mariner got back home safely whether he’s a ghost or not, because now he can go tell his story to a bunch of others! Over all the book and it’s non-fiction made me love it, I just wish it was written in an easier understanding way, and I hope to read more non-fiction books like we have been.
Now, to my experience trying to remember/recite the five stanzas. I didn’t have time and I kind of forgot to try and memorize it, so I only had Sunday and Monday to try and be able to recite it, which stressed me out a lot since I have a math summative coming up the day I’m writing this as well. Even though it was very stressful, I got one of my friends to help me through it. On the day of the recitation, I was pretty confident, but I know how things work, I went up there and I forgot most of the stanzas but I still completed it so I’m proud of myself because doing public speaking like that scares me. The weird part is I wasn’t too concerned with reciting it, it was more how was I going to stand so I don’t look weird. Either way, I feel like I did a good job and I’m so happy it’s over haha.