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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part 3
In Part 3, the poem becomes more fantastical as the spiritual world continues to punish the Ancient Mariner and his fellow sailors.
Like they have spent a long time drifting on the ocean with no wind or water, and everyone is sick of it.
Then they saw a ghostly ship neared, but his mouth is too dry to shout.
So he bites his arm to wet his lips with his own blood, just enough so that he can shout. His crewmates are so happy that they shout "gramercy!" meaning, "Thank heavens!"
It was a ghostly, skeletal hull of a ship and that its crew included two figures: one is Death and the other is Night-mare Life-in-Death.
Death : Embodied in a hulking form on the ghost ship.
The Night-mare Life-in-Death : Embodied in a beautiful, naked, ghostly woman with golden hair and red lips. …show more content…
She imposes a penance on the Mariner, which begins with the death of the crew while the Mariner lives on, unable to die, unable even to sleep.
Suddenly, sailors on the ship begin to die without a sound. However, they do make sure to curse the Mariner with their eyes before they go. Only Mariner is still alive on the ship. He grieves only for himself, at first, saying “Alone on a wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony”