guest. As the story opens‚ we see the ancient mariner narrating his experience to this select listener‚ telling how he set sail from England to the Antarctic‚ having for company an albatross‚ deemed by the crew to be an omen of good luck and fortune. For no legitimate reason‚ the ancient mariner shot down the albatross with his crossbow‚ bringing down with it the good luck of their voyage. Seen as callous and cold-hearted to have killed this bearer of goodness‚ the crew accuses the ancient mariner
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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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Snake When the snake first came to the water-trough‚ the narrator was excited and glad "he had come like a guest in quiet‚ to drink at my water trough." He "felt so honoured" at this visit whilst at the same time‚ the voices of his "accursed human education" advised him to kill it‚ for it was a gold snake and therefore venomous. Those voices said to him‚ "If you were not afraid you would kill him." The narrator "picked up a clumsy log And threw it" at the snake when the snake was leaving.
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caught in a dangerous‚ foggy ice field. An albatross shows up to steer them through the fog and provide good winds‚ but then the Mariner decides to shoot it and soon the sailors lose their wind‚ and it gets really hot. They run out of water‚ and everyone blames the Mariner. The ship seems to be haunted by a bad spirit‚ and weird stuff starts appearing‚ like slimy creatures that walk on the ocean. The Mariner’s crewmates decide to hang the dead albatross around his neck to remind him of his mistake
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reconciliation in court systems and other penal codes. "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" helps implement all this cycle with the murder of the albatross and how he must pay for his actions. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a tale of retribution‚ since the Ancient Mariner spends most of the poem paying for his one‚ impulsive error of killing the Albatross. The spiritual world avenges the Albatross’s death by wreaking physical and psychological havoc on the Ancient Mariner and his shipmates. Even
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beings with “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding. The king invites many people but the first ones ignore him‚ or killed his servants. The later ones are unworthy of being there. “For many are invited‚ but few are chosen.” The albatross could be an invitation to good fortune since it is considered a good omen. However‚ the ancient mariner rejects this invitation by killing off the bird for no apparent reason‚ just like how the king’s servants gets killed. He gets punished for it
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killing the albatross and removing the good omen from the sailors‚ condemning them to “the silence of the sea.” “I had kill’d the bird” could be seen as the Mariner betraying Christianity and God by killing part of nature as God created the natural world and is repeated to emphasize the sin and importance of the Mariner destroying the omen. Later in the poem‚ the dead albatross replaces a cross around the Mariner’s neck to remind him of his sin; “ Instead of the cross‚ the Albatross‚ about my neck
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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
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was "wondrous cold"‚ full of snow and glistening green icebergs as tall as the ship’s mast. The sailors were the only living things in this frightening‚ enclosed world where the ice made terrible groaning sounds that echoed all around. Finally‚ an Albatross emerged from the mist‚ and the sailors revered it as a sign of good luck‚ as though it
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Mariner" Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "The Rime of an Ancient Mariner" is a lyrical ballad that seems more like a miniature epic. However‚ not only it is a ballad talking about the adventure of an old mariner who is cursed for life because he kills an albatross; deeper than that‚ it is also a religious allegory conveying numerous themes pertaining to Christianity. On the one hand‚ if one reads "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" simply as a tale at sea‚ the poem stands remarkable because of its simple rhyme
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