The rime of the ancient mariner, heaven or hell?
Within ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ it seems to be that Coleridge uses a lot of religious meanings throughout this poem. Coleridge uses this to explore the Mariner and his supernatural beings. Coleridge is showing the readers the gothic and mysterious feel towards this poem, also showing us the immoral and imaginative sides to this. The gothic novel/poems was popular in England in the 1790’s and came replete with castles, prisons, mysterious forces, gloomy landscapes, and sexual perversions.
In part three of ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner this shows more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Mariner and also punishing his sailors which have joined him on this voyage.”LIFE-IN-DEATH was she who thicks man’s blood with cold” this is seeming that the spiritual world is punishing the men with the natural world as the weapon such as; there is no wind in this vast temperature as the sun chars them and the men becoming dehydrated and the ocean churns with dreadful creatures .However the ship is separate from the natural world, it sails without wind and its inhabitants are spirits. Death and life-in-death are figures that become frighteningly real for the sailors, especially when the Ancient Mariner, whose soul is won, “the game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!” which is telling the reader that the souls has been won/taken from the Mariner which is representing Hell. This is also dooming him to a fate worse than death as the Mariner says “my soul is in agony” and “this heart within me burns” this is showing that the Mariner has continued to live but with constant pain in his life, they do this by using the Mariners body as a prison but in captured on this ship where he will continue to suffer with pain and only doomed to die only when he has paid his due, whereas the sailors who died their souls have gone to heaven as they have had their punishment by experiencing death.
During the poem we get more of an image of hell and the experiences that
In part three of ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner this shows more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Mariner and also punishing his sailors which have joined him on this voyage.”LIFE-IN-DEATH was she who thicks man’s blood with cold” this is seeming that the spiritual world is punishing the men with the natural world as the weapon such as; there is no wind in this vast temperature as the sun chars them and the men becoming dehydrated and the ocean churns with dreadful creatures .However the ship is separate from the natural world, it sails without wind and its inhabitants are spirits. Death and life-in-death are figures that become frighteningly real for the sailors, especially when the Ancient Mariner, whose soul is won, “the game is done! I’ve won! I’ve won!” which is telling the reader that the souls has been won/taken from the Mariner which is representing Hell. This is also dooming him to a fate worse than death as the Mariner says “my soul is in agony” and “this heart within me burns” this is showing that the Mariner has continued to live but with constant pain in his life, they do this by using the Mariners body as a prison but in captured on this ship where he will continue to suffer with pain and only doomed to die only when he has paid his due, whereas the sailors who died their souls have gone to heaven as they have had their punishment by experiencing death.
During the poem we get more of an image of hell and the experiences that