Overall, I think that “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a nice poem. I liked the plot, and I found it really interesting how the story pressed along, between the Mariner shooting the Albatross, and the sudden misfortunes that happened to the crew soon afterwards. but I didn’t really like reading the poem due to the language that was used in the writing. I feel that I would’ve been more engaged in the poem if the language was easier to understand, at least to me. This poem slightly reminded me about the Story of Joseph, despite the languages being different from each other I still I found the poem quite difficult to follow because although I had pages on pages of notes, I still couldn’t really piece together what was happening when the time came around for the quiz. In fairness, this could’ve simply been my error, and my notes were not thorough enough, but I have never had this sort of issue before when I have used my notes for quizzes on other stories.
As for the recitation on the five stanzas, I think I performed good, and I had everything memorized, despite my mind going blank as I was silently standing in front of everyone with my best efforts to try and gather my thoughts, which I was eventually able to grasp. I feel that I definitely could have done a better job on creating a sense of character, because I was mainly thinking more of memorization than emphasizing my words, or making appropriate pauses and rests to have a flow as I was reciting the stanzas. Other than the small snippet that I blanked on in the middle, I think that the rest of the recitation went well for the most part.