Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Message Essay
The Rime of Life
(3 Messages from “Rime”)
Immortality is a story like any other. Meaning everybody dies eventually. Though, before death, there is life. To live life, people need to learn. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge teaches some important lessons that many people have learned, will learn, or need to learn.
One of the lessons Coleridge has placed in his poetic story is that people have more regrets the older they get. With every mistake made, either the person learns from it or regrets it. An example of this is when someone is talking and they accidentally say something that came out incorrectly. Everybody has regrets, even if they don’t realize it just yet. Those people, the ignorant people, will eventually come do to Earth and see all the regrets they have accumulated, just give them time that they are unable to afford to waste. Time moves on, humanity grows older, and everybody regrets more.
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If only more people would learn this lesson. If they did, there may be less suicides, less war, and, most importantly, peace, but that cannot happen without if they don’t know the lesson. The disrespect alone is unwelcomed deed. That’s what Coleridge would call “the albatross around my neck.” (Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; line 125) Humans are destructive creatures, that is why there is war, suicide, no peace, and no respect. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge teaches some important lessons that, if people had learned, could have brought a better world. Death is the true test. Have we as people learned from our lives what is right? Even if this generation hasn’t, maybe the next will or some generation in years to come. If no one does, then this world is doomed just like those who died in the flood during Noah’s
(3 Messages from “Rime”)
Immortality is a story like any other. Meaning everybody dies eventually. Though, before death, there is life. To live life, people need to learn. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge teaches some important lessons that many people have learned, will learn, or need to learn.
One of the lessons Coleridge has placed in his poetic story is that people have more regrets the older they get. With every mistake made, either the person learns from it or regrets it. An example of this is when someone is talking and they accidentally say something that came out incorrectly. Everybody has regrets, even if they don’t realize it just yet. Those people, the ignorant people, will eventually come do to Earth and see all the regrets they have accumulated, just give them time that they are unable to afford to waste. Time moves on, humanity grows older, and everybody regrets more.
Coleridge portrays himself as a realist with the …show more content…
If only more people would learn this lesson. If they did, there may be less suicides, less war, and, most importantly, peace, but that cannot happen without if they don’t know the lesson. The disrespect alone is unwelcomed deed. That’s what Coleridge would call “the albatross around my neck.” (Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; line 125) Humans are destructive creatures, that is why there is war, suicide, no peace, and no respect. In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge teaches some important lessons that, if people had learned, could have brought a better world. Death is the true test. Have we as people learned from our lives what is right? Even if this generation hasn’t, maybe the next will or some generation in years to come. If no one does, then this world is doomed just like those who died in the flood during Noah’s