Question

Which poem by Coleridge was included in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads?

• A. Kubla Khan
• B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• C. Christabel
• D. Dejection: An Ode

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was the most significant poem he contributed to the 1798 first edition of Lyrical Ballads. The poem, written in a ballad form, tells the eerie and supernatural tale of a mariner who brings a curse upon his ship and crew by killing an albatross.

It played a crucial role in establishing the themes of imagination, nature, and the supernatural that defined the Romantic movement.