Class VIII: The Chimney Sweeper

The Chimney Sweeper

Concept Map:

About the Poet:

William Blake is a well-known English poet, printer and painter. He belonged to the eighteenth century. Some of his most loved poems are found in his collections ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of Experiences’. Though he was a poet of eighteenth century, his poems are still are important in today’s world.

About Contemporary England:

‘The Chimney Sweeper’ is set against the dark background of child labour that was prominent in England in the late 18^th and 19^th century. At the age of four and five, boys were sold to clean chimneys, due to their small size. These children were oppressed and had a little experience that was socially accepted at the time.

Textbook Exercise:

1)      How do we know that chimney sweeper was very young when he was ‘sold’? What is meant by ‘sold’ here?

Ans: There is an instance in the poem where the chimney sweeper cries, “weep, weep, weep”. Actually he wants to say, “Sweep, sweep, sweep” but as he is so small he cannot speak properly. From this we can guess that he was very young when he was ‘sold’. Here, the word ‘sold’ means the chimney sweeper was forced to.

2)      Why was Tom Dacre crying?

Ans: Tom Dacre was crying because his curled white hair, which he used to like a lot, was shaved, and he was made bald.

3)      Which part of Tom’s dream was sad and tragic, or even scary?

Ans: In Tom’s dreams Tom saw that thousands of chimney sweepers (including his friends) were locked up in the black coffins. This part of Tom’s dream was sad and tragic or even scary.

4)      Who came to free them?

Ans: An angel came to free them from the black coffins.

5)      How does Tom enjoy his freedom in his dream?

Ans: When freed by the angel, Tom leaps on the green plains, sports in the wind. He laughs; he plays, runs and swims in the river.

6)      What does the angel tell Tom?

Ans: Angel told Tom that if Tom would be a good boy, he would have God for his father and would never ask for joy.

7)      How had Tom’s view of life change the next morning?

Ans: In the dream, Tom sees the angel telling him that if Tom would be a good boy, he would have God for his father and would never ask for joy. As Tom knows that there is nothing that can change his destiny, he has to accept his fate as it is, he decided to work without hesitation. Thus, the next morning, Tom’s view of life changes.

8)      How do we come to know that the children in this poem do not like the work they do?

Ans: There are many instances which show that the children in this poem do not like the working as chimney sweeper. These instances are as follows:

-        The children cry as they are forced to shave their head bald

-        The children dreams a nightmare of them being trapped in the coffin

-        The children enjoy playing in the plains and water as they hardly get time to do so

Participle, Infinitive and Gerund

Finite verbs:

·         It has a subject and it shows tense.

·         It changes according to the change in the subject.

·         It is an action word.

·         For example:

-        You promised me the last ticket.

-        I am excited about going to the amusement park.

-        I went for a walk around the park.

Non-finite verbs:

·         It doesn’t show tense.

·         It doesn’t act like a verb.

·         It can be in the base form of the verb used with the word ‘to’.

·         It can act as a noun when used with ‘-ing’ participle.

·         For example:

-        It took courage to continue after the accident

-        Leaving home can be very traumatic.

Participles:

·         It is a form of verb which is used as an adjective.

·         It can end with ‘-ing’ or ‘-ed’ or the other participle forms. But it is always an adjective.

·         For example:

-        The rising sun is the best thing to watch.

-        Used shoes are good for nothing.

-        Written letters always reminds you of someone.

Gerund:

·         This looks exactly the same as a present participle, and for this reason it is now common to call both forms 'the -ing form'. 

·         However it is useful to understand the difference between the two.

·         The gerund always has the same function as a noun (although it looks like a verb)

·         It is an ‘-ing’ for of the verb which can be used:

·         Subject of the sentence:

-          Killing people is not good.

·         Compliment of the ‘to be’ verbs

-          The best thing in the world is loving mother.

·         After preposition

-          She is good at painting.

·         after a number of 'phrasal verbs' which are composed of a verb + preposition/adverb

-          I look forward to hearing from you soon. 

Class X: Shady Plot

Answer the following:

1.What genre of stories does Jenkins want the narrator to write?  Why?

Ans. Jenkins wants the writer to write ghost stories.  This genre of stories is much liked by the people.  Jenkins says that the writer’s ghosts are live things which give the people horrors and thrills.  That is why Jenkins wants the writer to write such stories. 

2. Does the narrator like writing ghost stories?  Support your answer with evidence from the story.

Ans. Yes, the narrator likes writing ghost stories because the people like his stories.  And then they get him money to pay the landlord and the grocer.  He also gets money to pay for his wife’s shopping sprees.

3. What makes Helen, the ghost, and her other co-ghosts organize ‘The Writer’s Inspiration Bureau’?

Ans. In her life on the earth, Helen had been an unsuccessful writer.  She realised the pain of being an unsuccessful writer.  She wanted to do something for such writers.  Therefore, she found some other ghosts who had suffered a similar fate and organized ‘The Writer’s Inspiration Bureau’.

4. Why had Helen, the ghost, been helping the narrator write ghost stories?  Why was she going on strike?  What condition did she place for providing continued help?

Ans. During her life on the earth, Helen had been an unsuccessful writer.  She realised the pain of being an unsuccessful writer.  Therefore, she, as a ghost, formed ‘The Writer’s Inspiration Bureau’ to help writers with new ideas for their writings.  And as a member of this bureau, she had been helping the narrator. 

      But ghosts were presently being summoned too often by Ouija board fanatic and they knew no rest.  That is why Helen and the other ghosts decided to go on strike. 

          She said that she would no longer help the narrator until he got his relatives and acquaintances give up the use of Ouija boards. 

5. How does the ghost undermine the narrator’s faith in his ability to write ghost stories?

Ans. Helen, the ghost, says that it was she who had been inspiring the narrator with plots for his stories.  But for her, he could never have been able to write his stories.  Thus the ghost undermines the narrator’s faith in his ability to write ghost stories. 

6. Why does John want the ghost to disappear before his wife appears on the scene?  What impression of his wife’s character do you form from his words?

Ans. John’s wife is a very sensitive lady.  The narrator fears that she won’t be able to bear the sight of a ghost.  She would swoon or go mad in fear.  That is why John wants the ghost to disappear before his wife appears on the scene.  John’s wife is a domineering lady only in so far as her husband is concerned.  Otherwise, she is very timid at heart. 

7. Why does the narrator hesitate to be a partner to Laura Hinkle during the Ouija Board party?

Ans. The ghost had warned the narrator that she would not help him with plots for his stories unless he got his relatives and other acquaintances give up the use of Ouija boards.  He knew that the ghost would be terribly angry with him if he himself indulged in the use of these boards.  That is why he hesitates to be a partner to Laura Hinkle during the Ouija board party. 

8. What message does the ghost convey to the group that had assembled in the narrator’s house?  What is their reaction to the message?

Ans. The ghost conveys the message that the narrator (John) is a traitor and that someone by the name of Helen has been communicating with him.  There is great murmuring and whispering in the party because everyone thinks that the narrator is having an extramarital affair. 

9. Do you agree with the narrator calling the assembly of women ‘manipulators’?  Give reasons.

Ans. Miss Laura Hinkle in the Ouija board party concludes from her readings on the board that someone by the name of Helen was trying to communicate with John. She makes a loud announcement of it.  Everyone in the room at once corroborates this with their own readings.  It was such a spicy thing that everyone wanted to have a lick of it.  Thus the narrator is perfectly right in using the word ‘manipulators’ for them.

10. Why is John’s wife angry?  What does she decide to do?

Ans. During the Ouija party, it is rumoured that someone in the name of Helen has been communicating with John.  John’s wife, Lavinia, concludes that her husband is having an affair with some other woman.  Naturally, she is angry and decides to leave John and go to her grandmother’s house. 

11. Why does John wish he were dead?

Ans. Lavinia, John’s wife, suspects that her husband is having an affair with some other woman.  She is very angry and writes for him a note saying:  ‘Dear John, I am going back to my grandmother.  My lawyer will communicate with you’.  John is so shocked to read it that he says: ‘Oh, I wish I were dead’.

12. When confronted by Lavinia about his flirtations over the Ouija board, John insists that ‘the affair was quite above-board, I assure you, my love’.  Bring out the pun in John’s statement. 

Ans. The phrase ‘above-board’ means ‘legal and honest’.  It is in this sense that John uses it to say that there is nothing unfair in  his affair with Helen.  But the word ‘board’ here can also be taken to mean the Ouija board.  It can mean that John’s affair with Helen was not through the Ouija board but through something above the board. 

13. John’s apprehensions about his wife’s reaction to her encounter with the ghost are unfounded.  Justify.

Ans. John fears that his wife won’t be able to bear the sight of the ghost.  He thinks that she would swoon or go mad in fear.  But nothing of the sort happens when Lavinia actually sees the ghost in front of her.  She neither swoons nor faints.  Rather a broad smile spreads over her face.  She even talks to the ghost and says, “I thought you were Helen of Troy.”  Thus John’s apprehensions all prove unfounded.  

Class X: Virtually True

Virtually True

1.       According to the newspaper, what had happened to Sebastian Shultz?

Ans: Some weeks ago, Sebastian was badly injured in a motorway accident.  He was taken to a hospital.  His condition was critical.  The doctors hoped that the boy would regain consciousness, but the boy remained in a coma.  The doctors feared that it could last forever.  But then there was a miracle. The boy awoke from the coma.

2. ‘Dad’s nutty about computers.’  What evidence is there to support this statement?

Ans.  Michael’s dad is nutty and crazy for computers.  He has a Pentium 150 Mhz. processor, 256 RAM, 1.2 GB hard disk and 16-speed CD-ROM, complete with speakers, printer, modem and scanner.  It can print, play music and create displays.  He couldn’t resist buying any of the new gadgets or gizmos that came on the market. 

3. In what way did the second game seem very real?

Ans.  The second game was ‘Dragonquest’.  In this game, Michael was a knight who had to rescue a princess from a dragon.  When Michael reached the tower where the princess had been imprisoned, he saw another knight there.  Michael at once knew that he was Sebastian Shultz of the previous game.  During the game, the two talked with each other and helped each other in fighting the dragon.  Thus the second game seemed very real. 

4. The last game has tanks, jeeps, helicopters and guns. What headings would you put this and the other games under?

Ans.  There are four games in this story:

1.    Wildwest

2.    Dragonquest

3.    Jailbreak

4.    Warzone

Each has been given very suitable heading.  Each heading suggests the theme of the game. 

 All these games can be put broadly under ‘Interactive Psycho-drive Games’

5. What was Michael’s theory about how Sebastian had entered the games?

Ans.  At the time of the accident, Sebastian was using his laptop to play a psycho-drive game.  His head banged against the laptop and thus his memory was saved with the computer’s own memory.  And when Michael played these games on the computer, he found Sebastian there. 

6. Read these lines from the story and then answer the questions. 

‘That was my idea’ said Sebastian excitedly.  If only it would go a bit faster.

i)                    Where was Sebastian when he spoke these words?

Ans. Sebastian was on the rooftop.

ii)  What was his idea, and what was he referring to?

Ans. His idea was to escape from the jail.  He was referring to the helicopter he had arranged for his escape. 

iii) Was the idea a good one, and did it eventually succeed?  How?

Ans. The idea was a good one but it did not work because the jail guards with their dogs reached there before they could escape by the helicopter. 

7. Why did the news of the ‘miracle recovery’ shock Michael?

Ans. The news was related to the miracle recovery of a fourteen-year-old boy, Sebastian Shultz.  It was reported that the boy had awoken from a coma that doctors feared might last forever.  The newspaper story carried the boy’s photograph also.  Now Michael knew this boy well because he had played psycho-drive computer games with him for those very days when he was said to be in a coma.  How could that be?  It was something shocking for him.

8. Michael’s meeting with Sebastian Shultz had been a chance meeting.  Where had it taken place and how?

Ans. Michael’s dad had bought some psycho-drive computer games at the Computer Fair.  While playing these games, Michael found a character named Sebastian Shultz in each one of them.  The first of these games was Wildwest. 

9. What kind of computers fascinated Michael and his dad?  Why?

Ans. Computers complete with speakers, printer, modem and scanner fascinated Michael and his dad.  They loved to play psycho-drive computer games and liked such computers best of all.  While playing these games, they felt as if they were themselves inside the game, battling with the others.

10. Describe the first place where Michael was virtually transported.

Ans. The first place where Michael was virtually transported was a saloon.  It was when he was playing the psycho-drive computer game called Wildwest. 

11. What help did Sebastian Shultz ask Michael for?  How did he convey this message?

Ans. Sebastian Shultz wanted Michael’s help to retrieve him from the memory of the computer.  He conveyed this message through a printer that was attached to the computer. 

12.  Why did Michael fail in rescuing Sebastian Shultz the first time?

Ans. The first time, Michael met Sebastian Shultz in a saloon.  Here they, as sheriffs, had an encounter with a gang of ruffians.  The ruffians followed them on their horses and fired at them.  A gunshot hit Sebastian and he slumped back against Michael.  Thus Michael failed in rescuing Sebastian.

13. The second attempt to rescue Sebastian Shultz was also disastrous.  Give reasons. 

Ans. This time, Michael tried to rescue Sebastian from the jail.  The two got out of their cell with the help of a skeleton swipe-card.  They ran upstairs where Sebastian hoped to escape by a helicopter.  A helicopter did come there, but before they could escape, the jail guards came there with their dogs.  In fear, Sebastian took a step backward and slipped down the roof.  He fell on the concrete floor below.  Thus the end was disastrous for Sebastian.    

14. Narrate the accident that injured Sebastian Shultz.

Ans. While going in a car on the motorway, Sebastian Shultz was playing psycho-drive computer games on his laptop.  There was an accident and his head banged against the computer.  Thus he was injured.  He was taken to a hospital in a state of unconsciousness. 

15. How had Sebastian Shultz entered the games?

Ans. Sebastian Shultz was injured in a motorway accident.  At the time of the accident, he was playing psycho-drive computer games.  His head banged against the laptop and his memory was saved into the computer’s own memory.  Thus Sebastian entered the games that were being played on his laptop. 

16.  How was Sebastian Shultz’s memory stored on Michael’s disk?  How did Michael discover that?

Ans. Michael’s dad had bought some psycho-drive computer games from the Computer Fair.  In fact, they belonged to Sebastian and had been stolen while he lay in a coma in the hospital.  When Michael plugged these games into his own computer, Sebastian’s memory got stored into his own disk. Michael came to know of it only when he read the newspaper report.

Time Rime of Ancient Mariner

Rime of Ancient Mariner

About the poem:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is one of the best known classical poems written in English, containing some very beautiful and memorable lines. You may find that it needs some work and attention from you to understand it, before you are in a position to appreciate and respond to the beauty of the language that it contains.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a ballad, i.e. it tells a story. Ballad poetry usually includes archaic words and spellings.

Textbook-Exercise:

1. How did the ancient mariner stop the wedding guest?

Answer: The ancient Mariner stopped the wedding guest by holding his hand with his skinny hands and holding him (his attention) with glittering eyes.

2. Was the wedding guest happy to be stopped? Give reason for your answer.

Answer: No. The wedding guest was not happy to be stopped because the wedding ceremony was about to start. As he was the close relation of the bride, he was supposed to be there in wedding, but was stopped by the Mariner. So, the wedding guest wasn’t happy to be stopped.

3. Describe the ancient mariner.

Ans: The ancient mariner is an old, old man; he's skinny, dark skinned from years of exposure to the elements, and he has a "glittering" eye. An ocean journey is imperiled by an icy stretch of sea, and the sailors' kindness to an albatross saves their lives.

The ancient mariner foolishly shoots the albatross with a crossbow, but no one can explain his actions. His punishment for such a savage and thoughtless act was to be cursed by a spirit who loved the great bird, and the ancient mariner spends the rest of his life recounting his mistake and the loss of his shipmates through impulsiveness.

4. How does the mariner describe the movement of the ship as it sails away from the land?

Answer: The Mariner says that the ship was cheered by the people standing at the harbour.  The ship came out of the harbour safely.  It passed below the church.  Then it moved towards the hill and sailed on after leaving the light house.  Finally, it entered the open sea.

5. What kind of weather did the sailors enjoy at the beginning of their journey? How has it been expressed in the poem?

Answer: The day was sunny at the beginning of their journey.  The sun came up on the left side of the ship.  It appeared as if it had come out the sea.  It became brighter and brighter as it went higher and higher in the sky. 

6. How did the sailors reach the land of mist and snow?

Answer: A stormy wind had begun to blow.  It drove the ship towards the south-pole. And there it had to face a very hostile weather. It was now mist and snow all around.  Green ice as high as the mast came floating by the ship.  The sailors reached the land of mist and snow. 

7. How does the mariner express the fact that the ship was completely surrounded by the icebergs?

Answer: When the ship neared the south-pole, huge masses of ice were floating by their ship.  They were as high as the masts of their ship.  No man, bird or beast could be seen anywhere.  It was ice and ice everywhere.

8. How do we know that the Albatross was no afraid of the humans? Why did the sailors hail it in the God’s name?

Answer: We come to know that the albatross was not afraid of the human from the lines which tells us that whenever the captain of the ship used to shout for it, it used to come at the deck of the ship.

The sailors hailed it in the God’s name because they believed that it came in the form of a God’s angel who escaped them from the mist and snow.

9. What was the terrible deed done by the mariner? Why do you think he did it?

Answer:

Answer: The terrible deed done by the mariner was killing of the albatross. In my opinion, the mariner did this as a part of human instinct. Whenever we see something unusual like an animal or organism, we, out of curiosity, try to harm the creature.

10. In which direction did the ship start moving?  How can you say?

Ans: The ship started moving in the southern direction.  There is a clear indication in the 87th line: ‘And the good south wind still blew behind’.  So, there is no doubt that the ship was moving towards the south before entering the silent sea.

11.  Why does the Mariner say that ‘no sweet bird did follow’?

Ans: The old Mariner killed the innocent and auspicious albatross in a senseless fit.  It no longer came to the sailors for food or play.  That is why the Mariner says: ‘no sweet bird did follow’.

12.  How did the other mariners behave towards the Ancient Mariner at first?  How many times did they change their mind about the Ancient Mariner?  What does this tell us about their character?

Ans: The other mariners at first cursed the mariner for killing the bird.  They said that the bird had caused the good south wind to blow.  Now they feared that the Mariner’s sinful act would bring misfortune to them all. But when no woe came to them, they at once changed their views.  They said that the Mariner had done the right thing in killing the albatross. 

But when the ship got stuck at the equator, they again started cursing the Mariner.  They said that they were suffering because of the Mariner’s sin.  They hung the dead albatross round his neck.  All this shows that the other mariners were fickle-minded.  They kept changing their mind with every blow of the wind.

13.  How did the sailing conditions change after the ship had moved out of the land of mist and snow?  What or who did the mariners blame for this change?

Ans: When the ship had moved out of the land of mist and snow, all went well for some days.  The ship continued moving northward.  But then suddenly the ship got stuck at one place.  The wind stopped blowing.  The sun burnt red-hot all day.  It became extremely hot.  For days, the ship didn’t move at all.  The sailors had not a drop of water to drink.  Their tongues dried up and they could not speak.  They blamed the Ancient Mariner for all their troubles.  They said that they were suffering because the Ancient Mariner had killed the good albatross.

14.  What is indicated by the line: “The bloody sun, at noon, / Right up above the mast did stand, / No bigger than the moon”?

Ans: It indicates the unbearable heat of the burning sun.  The sky looked red like copper.  At noon, the sun was right above the head.  It was at the highest point in the sky.  So it looked no bigger than the moon. 

15.  How does the Mariner describe the fact that they were completely motionless in the middle of the sea?

Ans. The Mariner describes that when the ship entered the silent sea there started a period of stagnation.  There was no movement in the air or in the water.  The ship remained stuck at one place for many days.  Both the ship and the ocean were so still they looked like a painting. 

16. What is the irony in the ninth stanza?  Explain it in your own words.

Ans. The ninth stanza reflects the irony of the situation.  The poet uses the ‘alliteration’ and ‘repetition’ very effectively.  “Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink”.  Really the condition of the mariners was very pathetic.  Ironically, water was all around but they had not even a drop of water they could drink and wet their throats. 

17.  What is the narrator trying to convey through the description of the situation in the tenth and eleventh stanza?

Ans. In the tenth stanza, the poet is presenting a picture of decay and rot.  Hateful creatures with muddy legs began to crawl on the muddy sea. 

In the eleventh stanza, the poet introduces the supernatural in the poem.  At night, death-fire danced all around them.  The sea-water burnt green, blue and white like the oils of a witch.  It was really a deadly sight. 

18.  What or who did the mariners feel was responsible for their suffering?

Ans. The mariners felt that it was the Ancient Mariner who was responsible for all their suffering.  He had killed the good bird, albatross, and for this sin of his, all of them were suffering. 

Some of the mariners thought that it was the Polar spirit that was troubling them.  It had followed them from the land of mist and snow.  It was this spirit that was keeping the ship stuck at one place. 

19.  Describe the condition of the mariners as expressed in the thirteenth stanza.

Ans. This stanza describes the terrible condition of the mariners.  Because of thirst, their tongues had gone dry.  Their tongues were so much withered that they couldn’t speak even.  They seemed to have been chocked with sooty smoke. 

20.  Why did the mariners hang the albatross around the neck of the Ancient Mariner?

Ans. The mariners held the Ancient Mariner responsible for all their suffering.  They thought that the Ancient Mariner’s sin of killing the albatross was the sole cause of their troubles.  So they hung the dead albatross round the Ancient mariner’s neck.  They thought thus only the Ancient Mariner would suffer for his sin, not the others.

Themes in ‘The Rime of Ancient Mariner’:

1.    Sin and Redemption:

According to the Bible, man is a sinful creature, but redemption awaits him if he repents his wrongdoing and performs penance. This theme manifests itself as follows: After the ancient mariner commits a sin by killing the albatross, guilt hounds him in the form of strange natural and supernatural phenomena. During one terrifying experience, he has a change of heart and repents his wrongdoing. After confessing to the Hermit, he carries out a penance, which is to travel the world to tell his tale to strangers.

2.    Respect for Nature

Human beings should respect all of God’s creation and all of His creatures, including the albatross and even sea snakes. In doing so, people indicate their respect for the Creator Himself.

3.    Terror

The mariner undergoes terrifying experiences as he confronts supernatural wonders.

Figures of Speech

Alliteration

By thy long grey beard and glittering eye (line 3)

He holds him with his skinny hand (line 9)

The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
For he heard the loud bassoon. (lines 31-32)

The merry minstrelsy (line 36)

Anaphora

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around. (line 59-60)

With throats unslaked, with black lips baked (line 157) 

Without a breeze, without a tide (line 169) 

Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy (lines 190-192)

They groan'd, they stirr'd, they all uprose, 

Irony

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink ;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink. (lines 119-122)
Water is everywhere, but there is none to drink.

Metaphor

Each turned his face with a ghastly pang,
And cursed me with his eye. (lines 215-216)
Comparison of the appearance of the eye to a curse

They coil'd and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire. (lines 281-282)
Comparison of the wake left by the sea snakes to fire

Onomatopoeia

It crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd (line 61)

Personification

The Sun came up upon the left,
Out of the sea came he !
And he shone bright, and on the right
Went down into the sea. (lines 25-28)
Comparison of the sun to a person

Simile

    [E]very soul, it passed me by,
Like the whizz of my crossbow! (lines 223-224)
Comparison of the passing of a soul to the sound of a shot arrow

    [T]he sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye (lines 251-252)
Comparison of the sky and sea to a weight on the eye

Her beams bemocked the sultry main,
Like April hoar-frost spread (lines 268-269)
Comparison of reflected sunbeams to frost

The bride hath paced into the hall,.................
Red as a rose is she (lines 33-34)
Comparison of the bride to a rose

The water, like a witch's oils,
Burnt green, and blue and white. (lines 129-130)
Comparison of water to witch's oils

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean. (lines 115-118)
Comparison of the motionless ship and ocean to paintings

Synecdoche

The western wave was all a-flame (line 171)
Wave refers to the ocean.

Internal Rhyme

Besides end rhyme, Coleridge also frequently uses internal rhyme. Following are examples.

The guests are met, the feast is set (line 7)

The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast  (line 49)

And through the drifts the snowy clifts (line 54)

The ice did split with a thunder-fit (line 69)

In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud (line 75)

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew (line 103)

Inversion

For poetic effect, Coleridge inverts the word order from time to time, as the following lines demonstrate.

Instead of the cross, the Albatross 
About my neck was hung.

The normal word order would be "was hung about my neck."

Through utter drought all dumb we stood!  (line 159)
The normal word order would be "we stood all dumb."

The naked hulk alongside came (line 195)
The normal word order would be "came alongside."