Punishment In The Marinere

The Marinere shows love to those around him through his continued “punishment.” He travels lands and retells his tale to someone at an unknown time. He cannot anticipate where, when, or who it will be with (VII. 615-625). He feels the need to share his knowledge to keep others from from making the same mistake. A learn from my story not from your mistake, type of mentality. He does this not because of some divine force or outside punishment, but because he has not fully forgiven himself and still carries a great deal of guilt for the incident. He was able to forgive himself to some degree and this change is notable; “I look’d to Heaven and try’d to pray;/ But or ever a prayer had gusht,/A wicked whisper came and made/ My heart as dry as dust,”