The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge A Different Traveler Like many of his contemporaries‚ Samuel Coleridge was interested in travel and travel books he read about exotic strangers in faraway places. As a young man he even joined a group planning a utopian settlement in the United States. The scheme was abandoned‚ staying in England living in the countryside where he attracted friends including the poet William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy to join him. One of the
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guest of what happened to him and his crew after he killed an albatross. In the poem the guest is held by the mariner and captivated by his story. The Mariner is trying to warn this man not to do anything rash such as go into the wedding and break it up. The mariner’s story describes how it could be on his conscience for the rest of his life‚ which can be one of the most painful punishments. The mariner’s story is about killing an albatross that had led the ship away from the storm and the icy seas
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THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER The Moral of the Poem: It is usually thought that great art suffers‚ if its didactic purpose is over-emphasized. Everyone recognizes that didacticism has something very impressive and effective about it‚ but no one likes a moral to be offensively obtruded in a work of art. Some go even to the extent of thinking that art and literature should be content to give pleasure and should never set out to teach a truth or preach a moral. There are those who believe
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Introduction Considering the history of literature‚ the conception of Nature seems to be a quite complex question. ’Nature’ is not a concept that can be grasped easily and it often requires discussing some great philosophical conceptions like ’Pantheism’ or ’Deism’. However‚ my paper will not deal in detail with such vast enquiries. I rather want to focus more accurately on how ’Nature’ is used by Pope and Coleridge‚ respectively. With other words‚ I would like to analyse the function of the concept
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loneliness felt by both Victor and his creature. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells the tale of a wedding guest confronted by an old sailor who recounts his expedition to the South Artic in years long past. It is on this journey that he shoots an albatross‚ a romantic symbol of nature and purity‚ and as a result is subjected to the supernatural wrath and becomes the sole survivor of his ship crew. His final punishment is being doomed to a lonely existence in which he can only wander the land conveying
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The Ancient Mariner’s punishment for killing the albatross is fair. After killing the Albatross and committing a crime against nature‚ the Ancient Mariner is punished by the spiritual and natural world. The Ancient Mariner is now living in his nightmare as a reality and suffering each day for his wrong doing. Now that he has done wrong‚ he pays for it by being miserable and wiser. He is now telling his story‚ not because he has to‚ but because he wants everyone to know that he made a mistake that
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story to him. The Mariner begins the story on a ship with his crew‚ soon after leaving port‚ he and his crew began heading toward Antarctica to avoid a storm. As the Mariner and his crew travel‚ they ultimately get lost in a deep‚ icy fog. Then‚ an albatross swoops down‚
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Have you ever killed a harmless animal ? In the story the Ancient Mariner A crew member killed a A white albatross‚ it was a beautiful looking bird that flies in the ocean floor. The story the Ancient Mariner is about a Journey that teaches Us and the Mariner‚ a life time story‚ to not kill any living creature of god’s creation. The albatross is a significance animal because god made that beautiful bird and the mariner just killed it to show off because he is good using a bow arrow. the people in
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powerful one‚ because one steers a ship to an extent‚ yet its fate lies in the hands of the winds and currents. Secondly‚ the albatross symbolizes Christ. Just as the Mariner senselessly slays the bird‚ man crucifies Christ whose perfection is unchallenged. Even though Christ represents mankind’s one chance at achieving Heaven‚ man continues to persecute Him. The albatross symbolizes the sailors’ one chance at deliverance from icy death and the Mariner shoots him. Thirdly‚ the South Pole symbolizes
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Spirit. Coleridge could also not associate the murder of the albatross with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The reader is told that the Polar Spirit "loved the bird that loved the man who shot him with his bow." It is doubtful that someone with Coleridge’s Christian background and faith could fail to see here an analogy with God who loved his son who loved the men that killed him. Another example of symbolism is the fact that the albatross is hung around the Mariner’s neck like a crucifix. Event the
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